Slavery Flashcards
Enslave
To force a person to work with no choice and no payment; to keep a person as property.
Economy
The system of producing, buying, and selling that allows people to get what they need and want.
Labor
Physical work, required in an economy to produce what people need and want.
Slave-state/Free-state
A state in the United States that either allowed slavery (like Texas) or did not allow slavery.
Oppression/Oppress
To limit another’s rights and freedoms, to keep them from having equality or opportunity.
Middle Passage
The sea route across the middle of the Atlantic Ocean used for transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Plantation
A large farm used for growing crops (tobacco, rice, cotton) to sell, used the labor of many enslaved people.
Abolition/Abolitionist
To get rid of something forever/An abolitionist was a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
Fugitive
A person who escaped (from slavery) and was on the run from the authorities.
Underground Railroad
A system of secret safe houses that helped fugitives escape to free-states or Canada.
Abolitionists wanted…
…to end slavery in the United States.
Plantations were…
…large farms, mostly in the southern United States, that used the labor of many enslaved people.
The economy allows people…
…to get the things they want and need.
The Middle Passage…
…was a sea route across the Atlantic Ocean where enslaved people were shipped from Africa to the Americas.
Texas was a…
…slave-state.
