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Peculiar Institution
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Term used to describe slavery in American because slavery so fragrantly violated the principle of individual freedom that served as the bias for the Declaration of Independence
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Paternalism
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Moral position developed during the first half of the 19th century which claimed that slaves were deprived of liberty for their own good. Such a rationalization was adopted by some slave owners to justify slavery.
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Yeomen
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Small landowners (the majority of white families in the South) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves
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Mulattoes
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People of mixed ancestry, whose status in the Old South was somewhere between that of blacks and whites
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Spirituals
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Songs, often encoded, which enslaved peoples used to express their frustration at being kept in bondage and forged their own sense of hope and community.
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Nat Turner
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Leader of the only slave revolt to get past the planning stages. Began with killing the members of his master's household. Moved on to neighboring farm houses 55 Whites killed at least
17 slaves were hanged |
