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| 7530926699 | American Anti-Slavery Society | Founded by William Lloyd Garrison and advocated the immediate abolition of slavery. By 1838, the organization had more than 250,000 members across 1,350 chapters. | 0 | |
| 7530926700 | American Colonization Society | Reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves. | 1 | |
| 7530926701 | Amistad | Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard. The ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial. | 2 | |
| 7530926702 | Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World | Incendiary abolitionist track advocating the violent overthrow of slavery. Published by David Walker, a Southern-born free black. | 3 | |
| 7530926703 | Black Belt | Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves. | 4 | |
| 7530926704 | breakers | Slave drivers who employed the lash to brutally "break" the souls of strong-willed slaves. | 5 | |
| 7530926705 | Gag Resolution | One of several resolutions passed in Congress between 1836 and 1844 providing in effect that no petition against slavery should be received or heard by the House | 6 | |
| 7530926706 | Liberia | West-African nation founded in 1822 as a haven for freed blacks, fifteen thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s | 7 | |
| 7530926707 | Mason-Dixon line | Originally drawn by surveyors to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery. | 8 | |
| 7530926711 | The Liberator | Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves. | 9 | |
| 7533419616 | yeoman farmer | Small landowners (the majority of white families in the south) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves. | 10 | |
| 7533442786 | mulattoes | A person with one white parent and one black parent. Mulattoes were found primarily in the South, where White and African-American populations were in closer proximity and thus the odds of having a mixed-race child increased. | 11 | |
| 7533452405 | chattel | An item of property other than real estate. | 12 | |
| 7533461912 | overseer | A person who supervises others, especially workers. | 13 | |
| 7533475678 | Peculiar Institution | Term used in the 19th century to refer to the system of slavery in the southern states of the US | 14 | |
| 7533501534 | natural increase | The growth of the slave population through reproduction | 15 | |
| 7533509458 | Sambo | Stereotype of blacks as childlike people | 16 |
