Words students can learn and understand during a unit on slavery

1. Slavery Words

2. lynching

3. To execute without due process of law, especially to hang, as by a mob.

4. What amendment of the Constitution did lynching violate?

5. Lynching in Milwaukee

6. What is the root word of abolitionist ?

7. The root word is abolish. What does it mean to abolish something? What is something you would like to see abolished?

8. a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.

10. plantation The word “Plant” in plantation gives us a clue as to what happens on a plantation.

11. Historically used for "colony, settlement in a new land" (1614); meaning "large farm on which tobacco or cotton is planted and grown"

13. overseer a person who oversees; supervisor; manager: the overseer of a plantation.

15. industries trade or manufacture in general What kinds of things Were manufactured from crops grown on plantations?

16. capital There are many meanings to the word capital.What are some meanings you know about the word capital?

17. the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc .

18. mill a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, textiles, or flour

20. slave codes Slave codes were laws each southern state had defining the status of slaves and the rights of masters; the code gave slave owners near-absolute power over the right of their human property

21. http://www.dinsdoc.com/goodell-1-0b.htm

22. spiritual A religious folk song of African-American origin.

23. www.cob.montevallo.edu/BrownCR/History.htm

24. sectionalism excessive regard for sectional or local Interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.

26. fugitive

27. person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway

31. secede To withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance.

33. woe distress, affliction, or trouble

35. What is something in your life or experience that caused you woe?