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| cotton gin | a machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton;revolutionized the cotton industry |
| planters | a large-scale farmer who held more than 20 slaves |
| cotton belt | a region streching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S cotton was produced during the mid-1800s |
| factors | a crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers |
| Tredegar Iron Works | a large iron factory that operate in Richmond,Virginia,in the early to mid-1800s |
| yeomen | owners of small farms |
| folktales | a story that often provides a moral lesson |
| spirituals | emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves'religious beliefs |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion | (1831)a rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow an skill planter families |
| Nat Turner | led a group of slaves |
