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Slavery
Slavery
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11th Grade
10/29/2014

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Middle Men
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Dealers who operate between the original producer of goods and the retail merchants who sell to consumers.
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Overseer
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someone who governs or directs the work of another.
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Sabotage
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intentional destruction or damage of goods, machines, or productive processes.
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Fratricidal
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relating to or denoting conflict within a single family or organization.
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Barbarism
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extreme cruelty or brutality.
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Nat Turner
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Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths. Whites responded with at least 200 black deaths.
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Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
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Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing
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Wiliam Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
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David Walker
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David Walker outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.
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