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| born a slave, led rebellion and killed whites, hanged |
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| perceptive observer of plantation society, white Southern wife |
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| free black carpenter accused of providing slaves with weapons, hanged along with 35 others, 37 banished |
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| surveyors' mark that divided Maryland and Pennsylvania, then free North and slave South |
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| cotton led Southern slave economy, mainly in Lower South |
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| laws that required total submission from slaves to masters and other whites, could be punished by anyone |
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| not slave owner, oversaw field work |
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| denied that slavery was wrong, "proved" it and defended it |
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| mixing of races, mostly babies with black mother and white fathers |
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| underlying assumptions about weakness and need to be protected |
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| through violence and cultural choices, destroying tools/faking illness |
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| seemed contradiction to Southerners |
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| yeoman, independent family working own set of land; plantation belt, lived alongside plantations |
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