| A | B |
| auctions | place where slaves were bought and sold |
| drivers | men hired by plantation owners to make sure slaves followed orders |
| 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 |
| Susan B. Anthony | equal pay for women |
| sufferage | voting rights |