Extended families

1
Extended families

• Often raised children if mothers or fathers in
  slavery were sold

2
The Underground Railroad

• Network of safe houses that helped slaves
  escape to freedom

3
Deep South

• Economy relied on production of cotton

4
Tenant farmers

• Southerners who rented land to farm

5
Runaways

• Were almost always captured

6
Cotton exchanges

• Extended credit to planters until cotton prices
  were high

7
William Gregg

• Opened a textile factory in South Carolina

8
Slave codes

• Laws in the Southern states written to prevent
  slave rebellions

9
Literacy

• The ability to read and write

10
Denmark Vesey

• Planned a slave revolt in 1821

11
Marriage

• Not legally recognized between enslaved people

12
Railroads

• Very few existed in the South

13
Deep South

• Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi,
  Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas and Texas

14
Upper South

• Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina

15
Harriet Tubman

• Escaped slavery and became a famous conductor on
  the Underground Railroad

16
Yeomen

• Southern farmers who did not own slaves

17
Spiritual

• Didnt My Lord Deliver Daniel

18
Capital

• Money to invest in business

19
Plantation wives

• Supervised domestic slaves, gardens and
  plantation buildings

20
Nat Turner

• Led a violent slave rebellion in 1831