| A | B |
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| secession | the act of withdrawing from a group |
| abolitionist | a person opposed to slavery |
| Underground Railroad | a system of people and hiding places for helping fugitive slaves |
| station | a hiding place for escaping slaves |
| stationmaster | a person who helped hide escaping slaves |
| slave | a person who is owned by another person |
| slave hunters | people hired to find runaway slaves |
| plantation | a large farm with cash crops |
| overseer | a white man paid to keep slaves working and obedient |
| passengers | fugitive slaves being conducted on the underground railroad |
| conductor | a person who led fugitive slaves from one safe place to another |
| Yankee | a Northerner |
| Confederate | referring to the states that left the Union |
| fugitive | a person on the run from the law |
