Waldron - Chapter 13- The South
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- Eli Whitney
- United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
- trickster tales
- folk tales that feature an animal or human character who engages in deceit, violence, and magic.
- Brer Fox
- trickster tale - represents the slave owner
- underground railroad
- network of white and black abolitionists that helped slaves free themselves from slavery
- Poor White Willie
- A fictional southern character who would support slavery because socially, he was above the slaves
- cotton gin
- machine that produced a more efficient way to get the seeds out of cotton, and expanded southern development
- whipping
- the most practiced method of punishment on a slave
- factors
- crop brokers who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers
- Drinking Gourd
- Code for the north star in slave talk
- drivers
- slaves themselves who helped the overseers manage the plantation
- Overseers
- bosses hired by plantation owners to keep slaves working hard
- Small Farmer Fred
- A fictional southern character who would support slavery because he wanted to own a great deal of slaves himself
- Polaris
- The North Star located at the tip of the little dipper
- slave codes
- laws in the southern states that controlled enslaved people
- Active Slave Resistance
- Resistance to slavery that was violent like arson or killing
- spirituals
- religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery
- Stono Rebellion
- a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
- Denmark Vesey
- United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of over 6,000 slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)
- crop rotation
- The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
- planters
- large-scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves
- Passive Slave Resistance
- Resistance to slavery that was non-violent like running away or breaking tools
- Running Away
- the most common method of passive or non-violent resistance
- Tredegar Iron Works
- large iron factory that operated in Richmond, Virginia, in the early to mid-1800s
- cotton belt
- A region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most of U.S. cotton was grown during the mid-1800's
- Gabriel Prosser
- in 1800, he gathered 1000 rebellious slaves outside of Richmond; but 2 Africans gave the plot away, and the Virginia militia stymied the uprising before it could begin, along with 35 others he was executed.
- Planter Pete
- A fictional character who would support slavery because it made him so much money
- Brer Rabbit
- trickster tale - represents the slave
- gang labor
- A system where planter organized their slaves into gangs, supervised them closely, and had them work in the fields all day. Primarily used on tobacco plantations.
- yeoman farmers
- Southern farmers who made up the majority of the white population.
- Nat Turner
- leader of a slave rebellion in which 57 white women and men and children were killed
- Harriet Tubman
- United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)