| A | B |
|---|
| planter | a person who owned a huge farm called a plantation |
| tidewater | low-lying land along a coast |
| broker | a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else |
| auction | a public sale |
| overseer | a person who watched field slaves do their work and punished them if they didn't work hard enough |
| spiritual | a religious song based on Bible stories |
| public service | doing a job to help the community or society as a whole |
| cash crops | crops you can sell to make money (tobacco, rice, indigo) |
| modify | change |
| apprentice | a child who learned a job by living with the boss's family and working for him for many years |
| county seat | the main town in a county |
| county | a large part of a colony |
