| A | B |
|---|
| Yeomen | Farmers who did not have enslaved workers-made up the largest group of whites in the South. |
| tenant farmers | Whites who rented land on landlord's estates. |
| overseer | plantation manager |
| legal | permitted by law |
| spiritual | African American religious folk song |
| slave codes | Laws that controlled enslaved people. |
| Nat Turner | Popular religious leader among enslaved people |
| brief | short |
| Harriet Tubman | African American leader born into slavery who fled to the North for freedom. |
| Frederick Douglass | African American leader who started an anti-slavery newspaper. |
| Underground Railroad | Network of "safe houses" owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery |
| literacy | number of people able to read and write. |
