| A | B |
|---|
| Only one fourth of white Southerners | had slaves |
| Most slave owners had | 20 slaves or less |
| Overseer | the person who supervised the slaves at work |
| large planatation owners | were the most respected in the South |
| yeomanry | ranked just below plantation owners |
| poor whites | were forced off the good land and into the frontier |
| Free African Americans in the South | were in danger of being returned to slavery |
| Solomon Northrup | free African American who was kidnapped into slavery for 12 years |
| Four and five year old African American children | helped with child care and chores or were punished |
| Slave codes | laws forbidding African Americans to defend themselves, read or write |
| extended family | aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents |
| stealing learning | when an African America secretly learned to read and write |
| Passive resistance | just doing enough work to keep from getting beaten |
| Nat Turner | Slave who revolted and helped murder 60 white people |
