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Black belt
Dark soil to grow cotton
Capital
Investment money
Cotton gin
Seperate seeds from cotton
Credit
A loan
Fixed costs
Regular expenses
Plantation
Large farm with slaves
Purchased
To buy
Slave codes
Laws restricting slaves
Tenant farmers
Land renter and day laborer
Yeomen
Farm owner with no slaves
Overseer
A plantation manager
Rural poor
Farm laborers that work for others / does not own land
Planter
A person who owns large farms with slaves
“Cotton is King”
A saying in the south to express how cotton was fueling southern economy
Upper South
Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina
Deep South
Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, and Texas.
Eli Whitney
The person who invented the cotton gin
Sum
A total/summary
Fixed costs
Regular maintenence
Predominantly
For the most part
Exceed
Went over
Constant
Occuring continuously
Communicate
Share of exchange information, news, etc.
Spiritual
A religious song
Slave codes
Laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people
Nat Turner
Thirty-year-old Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion that resulted in the death of fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.
Harriet Tubman
A slave born in Maryland who worked in plantations until near 30 and made an escape for freedom. She was also an African-American leader who was born into slavery.
Frederick Douglass
An American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Also, an African-American leader who was born into slavery.
Runaway
Slaves who tried running away to find freedom from their plantations.
Underground Railroad
A network of safe houses owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery.
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