Vocab Flashcards
Anti slavery
Used to describe a person action or IDEA that is against slavery
Corporal punishment
Punishment by the infliction of physical pain especially flogging. This is how most slaves were punished
Discriminate
To treat unfair or unfavorably especially on the basis of race or gender
Domestic Slave
An enslaved person who works in a household rather than in the field
Enfranchisement
Granting the right to vote
Enslavement
To make a slave of a person, being held in captivity, servitude
Freedom
The state of being at liberty, unrestricted, not restrained
Gang labor
Workers who toiled in the fields collectively all doing the same task at the same time. Last from sun rise to sunset. (Overseer/driver)
Insurrection
Rebellion , uprising, open resistance to authority
Jim Crow laws
Legislation in many American states that enforced segregation between black and white
“Jim crow” also refers to a black character played by a white man
Ku klux klan
White racist organization. Prevented freed enslaved people from voting and experience other civil rights. Used white robes to hide identity and used terror and intimidation against blacks
Merchant
Trader of goods. Buying for one price and selling it on for an increased price
Negro
Term used to describe a man of African descent. The word is considered derogatory and unacceptable today. Negress was used to describe a woman of African descent
Overseer(driver)
Person on a plantation paid a wage to organize the work of the enslaved people; manger
Plantation
A large area of farmland or estate planted with particular crops
Pro slavery
Describes a person place or idea that favors slavery
Racism
A belief that one group is inferior or superior to another because of their race
Seasoning
New enslaved people were given marginally lesser tasks in the seasoning period as their ability to survive disease was tested
Segregation
Separation of people especially in use of public facilities employment education and housing. Usually with a denial of political rights for the excluded group
Shackles
Metal hoops and chains put round necks wrists ankles of usually men enslaved people to restrain them
Slave
A servant devoid of freedom and personal rights
Suffrage
Right to vote
Task labor
Where people are given goals to achieve and benefit if they can complete the work quickly
Thirteenth amendment
The 1865 alternation to the United States constitution which abolished slavery
Underground Railroad
An escape route for thousands of enslaved people from the south to the north.
Whitneys cotton gin
An engine that separated the seeds from the cotton plant
Abolitionist
Person who supported the movement to end the transatlantic slave trade and slavery
