| A | B |
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| cotton gin | machine used to seperate cotton seeds from their fibers |
| planters | plantation owners who owned 20 or more slaves |
| cotton belt | region of land stretching from NC to TX; most cotton is grown here |
| scientific agriculture | use of scientific methods to improve crop production |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| factors | crop brokers who managed trade between southern planters and their customers |
| yeomen | small landowning farmers |
| auctions | place where slaves were bought and sold |
| folktales | oral stories that provide a moral |
| spirituals | emotional Christian songs sung by slaves; infused African and European music |
| overseers | white men hired by plantation owners to make sure slaves followed orders |
| Nat Turner | slave who led a revolt against planters in Virginia, killing more than 60 planters |
| slave codes | laws to control slaves |
| abolitionist | someone who is against slavery |
| emancipation | immediate freedom from slavery |
| American Colonization Society | abolitionists who set up the African colony of Liberia for free African Americans |
| Underground Railroad | network of people who helped thousands of slaves escape to freedom in the North |
| Frederick Douglass | escaped slave who told about the horrors of slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | helped over 300 slaves escape slavery by way of the Underground Railroad |
| Henry Brown | had himself shipped in box to the North to escape slavery |
| agriculture | farming |
| domestic slave trade | the inbreeding and selling of slaves in the United States |
| The Persuader | name of Harriet Tubman's gun |
| Moses | nickname given to Harriet Tubman |
| conductor | a person who helped others find their way to safety on the Underground Railroad |
| drinking gourd | code for Big Dipper and North Star |
| stations | safe havens for slaves on the Underground Railroad |
| packages | codename for slaves on the Underground Railroad |
| drivers | slaves who were in charge of keeping other slaves in line |
