| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Slavery | someone owned by another person |
| plantations | very large farms where the slaves lived and worked |
| master's house | mansion |
| cooking house | where the slaves cooked |
| stables | barns where expensive horses were kept |
| blacksmith | shop for fixing things with metala |
| overseers house | where the men that watched over the slaves lived |
| slave cabins | ratty shacks where the slaves lived |
| cotton fields | where cotton is grown' cotton, cloth, and clothing are made from |
| overseer | a man who rode around the fields, and whipped the slaves if they weren't working |
| "Black Spirituals" | songs slaves sang about God and freedom |
| abolitionists | people who helped the slaves run away |
| underground railroad | a secret path so the slaves can get up North |
| Big Dipper | looks like a ladel; drinking cup; drinking gourd |
| Harriet Tubman | slave that escaped from the plantation and made it to Canada.She went back 19 times to help free over 300 slaves; They offered $40,000.00 to who found her dead or alive |
| confederate states | Southern states that allowed slavery |
| conductors | the people that led the slaves along the underground railroad |
| Jefferson Davis | Southern president |
| Richmond, Virginia | capital of the south |
| Robert E. Lee | general of the south |
| grey uniforms | south |
| blue uniforms | north |
| Civil War | When a country fights itself |
| Union | northern states |
| Abraham Lincoln | union president |
| Ulysses S. Grant | north general |
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