| A | B |
| Quaker | a person in a religious sect |
| Abolitionist | a person who fights for freedom |
| plantation | a place where the slaves worked in the fields |
| Virginia | a southern state |
| calloused | had rough bumps on hands |
| mulatto | a person who has one white and one black parent |
| drinking gourd | code for "The Big Dipper" |
| hoecake | cornbread baked pancake style on the blade of a hoe |
| mirage | an illusion |
| Mississippi | an even more southern state |