4 Flashcards
Overseer:
someone who governs or directs the work of another
Sabotage:
intense trial destruction or damage of goods, machines, or productive processes
Fratricidal:
concerning the killing of brothers; term often applied to killing of relatives or countrymen in feuds or civil wars
Barbarism:
condition of being crude, uneducated, or uncivilized
Nat Turner:
his rebellion in 1831 sent wave of hysteria sweeping, planters slept with pistols by pillows
Sojourner Truth:
Freed black woman who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women’s rights
Frederick Douglass:
greatest of black abolitionists, lectured widely for the cause and even published a book- Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison:
in a sense fired one of the opening barrages of the civil war
David Walker:
his incendiary Appeal to the colored Citizens of the World advocated a bloody end to white supremacy
Middlemen:
dealers in trading systems who operate between original producers of goods and the retail merchants who sell to consumers