The Slave Controversy Flashcards
Overseer
Someone who directs the work of another
Sabotage
Intentional destruction
Fratricidal
Refers to the killing of relatives in civil war
Barbarism
Condition of being crude, uneducated, or uncivilized
Nat Turner
Led a slave uprising that killed 60 Virginians
Sojourner Truth
Black woman who gave speeches condemning the sin of slavery
Frederick Douglass
The greatest of the black abolitionists. Wrote his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
William Lloyd Garrison
Published the Liberator, the first abolitionist newspaper, in Boston
David Walker
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. He advocated a bloody end to white supremacy
Middlemen
Operated between the producers and the retail merchants in business