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39 Cards in this Set
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Bolls
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Seed pods, flax, or in this case, cotton
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Traipsing
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Walking purposelessly
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Akimbo
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With the hands on the hips and the elbows turned out
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Sharecropping
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System in which a tenant farmer gives a share of the crops as rent
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Loitering
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Standing around idly, lingering without purpose
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Clabber milk
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Sour milk
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Belfry
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Tower or steeple housing a bell
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Bridge
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To cross over (as on a bridge)
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Reconstruction
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the period after the Civil War (1865-1877), when the southern states were reorganzied and re-established in the Union
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Red-neck
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A member of the white laboring class in the rural South {a derogatory term)
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Tawny
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Lightly brown to brownish orange
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Switch
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thin rod, stick or twig used for whipping
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Compound
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A group of buildings
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Uncle Tomming
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a black's showing humiliating respectfulness toward whites )after Uncle Tom, the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Ginned
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removed seeds from cotton by using machine called a gin
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interminable
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seemingly without end; drawn out unreasonably
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collateral
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property used to guarantee a loan
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burning
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an act of deliberately setting fire to another's person or property; in this case, a crime perpretrated by whites against blacks
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shantytown
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a town or part of town with run-down huts or cabins
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ashen
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the color of ashes
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persnickety
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demanding strict attention to detail; fussy
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towheaded
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having white-blonde hair
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despondently
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with feeling of despair or dejection
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scoffed
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mocked;scorned
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en masse
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all together, as one body
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knell
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the sounding of a bell as a signal
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ebony
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black;the color of ebony wood
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clinched
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held together tightly, as a fist or jaw
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condoned
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forgave; overlooked a wrong
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chignon
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a roll or knot of hair at the back of the head or nape of the neck
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cauldron
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large kettle
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tarpaulin
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a waterproof cover
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fleeted
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passed swiftly
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bootleg
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illegal
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chiffonier
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high chest of drawers
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crescendo
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a gradual increase in volume or intensity
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verandas
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roofed porches along the outsides of buildings
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Mercantile
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having to do with trade or merchants; here specifically to the store Barnett's Mercantile
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cockatoo
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a kind of parrot
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