| A | B |
|---|
| Solomon Northup | African American slave; wrote"12 Years a Slave" |
| Cottonocracy | wealthy families in the South |
| planter | someone who owned at least 20 slaves |
| "plain folk" | southern white small farmers |
| free blacks | descendents of slaves freed after American Revolution |
| 200,000 | number of free blacks who lived in the South in 1860 |
| 4,000,000 | number of slaves in the South by 1860 |
| slave codes | laws that denied slaves basic human rights |
| read and write | things for which it was a crime for slaves to do |
| groups of three | slaves were not allowed to meet in groups larger than this |
| can see to can't see | from dusk till dawn |
| loss of freedom | worst part of slavery |
| extended family | closely knit slave family of parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins |
| jazz, blues,rock'n'roll | music which had its roots in slave songs |
| Denmark Vesey | free black who planned a revolt which failed |
| Nat Turner | slave preacher who planned a revolt |
