Extended families

Often raised children if mothers or fathers in

slavery were sold

The Underground Railroad

Network of “safe houses” that helped

slaves escape to freedom

Deep South

Economy relied on production of

cotton

Tenant farmers

Southerners who rented land to farm

Runaways

Were almost always captured

Cotton exchanges

Extended credit to planters until cotton

prices were high

William Gregg

Opened a textile factory in South Carolina

Slave codes

Laws in the Southern states written to

prevent slave rebellions

Literacy

The ability to read and write

Denmark Vesey

Planned a slave revolt in 1821

Marriage

Not legally recognized between enslaved

people

Railroads

Very few existed in the South

Deep South

Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi,

Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas and Texas

Upper South

Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, North

Carolina

Harriet Tubman

Escaped slavery and became a famous conductor on the

Underground Railroad

Yeomen

Southern farmers who did not own

slaves

Spiritual

“Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel”

Capital

Money to invest in business

Plantation wives

Supervised domestic slaves, gardens and plantation buildings

Nat Turner

Led a violent slave rebellion in 1831