| A | B |
|---|
| yeomen | owners of small farms |
| poor whites | owned land that could not be farmed, hunted, fished to provide food |
| free African Americans | descendents of Haitians and other Africans who gained freedom |
| plantation | large southern farm that used slaves to grow cash crops |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | led a successful slave revolt in Haiti |
| folktales | stories with a moral about how to survive as a slave |
| spirituals | religious songs that blended African and European music |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion | slave uprising in 1831 in which 60 whites and 100 slaves were killed |
