Civil War Flashcards
Overseer
A person who watches over someone
Sabotage
deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage.
Fratricidal
relating to or denoting conflict within a single family or organization.
Barbarism
primitive, less advanced, or simplistic ethos or societal condition
Nat turner
Slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths
Sojourner truth
an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826
Fredrick Douglass
African American abolitionist and social reformer
William Lloyd garrison
American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer
David walker
an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist
Middlemen
a person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer.