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Yeoman farmer |
small landowners (the majority of white families in the south) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves |
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Emancipate |
free from slavery or servitude |
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Mulattoes |
white dad, black mom (or vice versa) |
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Chattel |
an item of personal, movable property; slave |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin (about the cruelty of slave auctions) |
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Overseer |
person who supervises a large operation or its workers |
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Old South |
"antebellum era" 1830-1860 southern slave labor states that produced cotton which dominated the economy of the South |
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Deep South |
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana |
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Peculiar institution |
southern euphemism for slavery |
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Gabriel Prosser |
a slave that led a slave revolt in Richmond Virginia that failed, 35 slaves were executed |
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Denmark Vessey |
slave who purchased his freedom, planned a large slave rebellion in Charleston that failed, was arrested and executed |
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Nat Turner |
black preacher that led a revolt, the revolt killed 60 white Virginians (mostly woman and children) |
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The American Colonization Society |
organization founded in 1817 by antislavery reformers that called for gradual emancipation and removal of freed blacks to Africa |
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Theodore Weld |
an abolitionist in the 1830’s, was self-edu, put together a propaganda pamphlet -American Slavery As It Is, founded the "Land Rebels" -traveled across the Old NW preaching antislavery gospel |
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Arthur and Lewis Tappan |
Two wealthy merchants who helped Weld gain recognition |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society – was stubbornly principled |
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David Walker |
black abolitionist, wrote "Apeal to the Colored Citizens in the World" in 1829 |
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Sojourner Truth |
former slave who became an abolitionist and women’s rights activist |
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Frederick Douglas |
self- edu escaped slave, published an autobiography, reounced politics on 4th of July 1854 when he burned a copy of the constitution |
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Eugene Genovese |
"From rebellion to revolution" marxist historian, believed whites were constantly under threat of a slavery uprising |
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"Sambo" |
was an extreme sterotype of slaves |
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Kenneth Stampp |
author of "The Peculiar Institution", emph. the brutality of slavery, compared it to a prison |
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