18 Slavery terms Flashcards
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Abolitionist
A person who wanted to put an end to slavery.
Abolition
The action of ending a system of practice. Abolition is a movement to stop slavery
Indentured Servants
They signed contracts to work for people for a few years to get to America
Plantations
A location where cash crops were grown and used a bunch of slave labor.
Cotton belt
Agricultural region in the southern U.S where cotton is the main crop (cash crop)
Cotton Gin
A machine that separates the seed, hulls, and foreign material from the cotton
Slave Codes
A bunch of laws that were written for owners to control their slaves
Underground Railroad
A network of abolitionists who secretly helped slaves escape to the north to Canada.
Uncle Toms Cabin
A abolitionist book written by Harriet Beecher stowe
Fugitive Slave Act
This act was a compromise for southerners interest and northerners free soldiers. Slaves that escaped would still be returned to their owners
Popular Soveignty
A government based on Consent and decisions of people
William Lloyd Garrison
An American abolitionist who made an antislavery newspaper.
Nat Turner
an enslaved man who led revolts against slavery and ended up getting hung for said revolts
John Brown
He belived he wa a gift from god and tried peaceful revolts against slavery
Frederick Douglass
He escaped after being slave and learned how to read and write and then wrote aout his time being held captive
