| A | B |
| abolish | to end or stop something |
| abolitionist | person who works to end or stop something |
| auction | a sale of property to the highest bidder |
| conductor | person who escorts runaway slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad |
| crops | plant or plant product that can be grown and harvested for profit |
| freedom | the quality or state of being free |
| fugitive | a slave who has run from the plantation |
| master | owner of the plantation |
| overseer | slave supervisor |
| plantation | a large, fancy farm worked by slaves |
| Big House | main house on a plantation occupied by the master and his family |
| runaway | slave who flees from the plantation |
| slave | person who is forced to work for others for no pay |
| slave holder | owner of the slaves |
| slave trade | buying and selling of blacks before the Civil War |