Chapter 10 - The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s

slave elite

The ________, the 2.5 % owners of 50 or more Slaves, enjoyed the prestige, the leadership and the lifestyle that many white Southerians longed to achieve.

word yeoman

The ________, originally a British term for a landowner, often covers the South's self- employed farmers who lived mostly on family farms.

Black Christianity

________ was a favored religion: slaves survived in small yet meaningful protests, not as passive victims of white bullying but as an active opponent of an oppressive system.

wake of liberty

In the ________ following the American Revolution, slavery and gradual emancipation laws were abolished by all the northern states, and slaves were freed up in the upper South.

cotton boom

The ________ caused the domestic slave trade to rise greatly.

South of America

The ________ was the only one to grow by natural growth rather than by constant imports of Africans captured.