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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Slaves' Daily Life and Labor
Slaves Families, Kinship, and Community
Resistance and Rebellion
Yeomen Farmers
100
What years are this chapter based on?
1793-1861
100
On the plantations of the Cotton Belt, most slaves worked in what?
Gangs
100
Most slave children live in _____ households
2 parent
100
In what year did the Louisiana slaves march in New Orleans brandishing guns, waving flags, and beating drums?
1811
100
What was the main source of cash?
livestock
200
On what day did the worst nightmare of southern slaveholders become reality?
August 22, 1831
200
Enslaved children and women worked in the what?
Fields
200
Many marriages lasted how many years?
20-30
200
Who mobilized a large band to march on Richmand?
Gabriel Prosser
200
What did yeoman women participate in?
Every dimension of household labor
300
Leading his band from plantation to plantation, how many whites where killed?
Nearly 60
300
Mothers could to do what to their children on their short breaks?
Nurse them
300
Where was the first place that masters looked for fugitives?
Near a family member who had been sold away
300
What was the most bloody and terrifying slave revolt?
Nat Turner insurrection of 1831
300
What are Yeomen? 
Southern small landholders who owned no slaves and lived in the foothills of the Appalachians and Ozark mountains
400
Who was the last person captured?
Nat Turner
400
Most slaves also kept ___ or small farm plots for themselves to supplement their ___
gardens-diet
400
Slaves' spouses frequently resided on what?
other plantations or farms
400
Who published an account of his life in slavery and daring escaped?
Henry "Box" Brown
400
What was below the small slaveholders on the social scale?
A substantial class of yeoman farmers who owned land they worked themselves
500
Who was Nat Turner?
Preacher and prophet who believed God had given him a sign that the time was ripe to strike for freedom
500
Why did many slaves work overtime of Sundays or holidays?
For money or goods, or hired out their overtime to others?
500
What happened after emancipation?
thousands of freed slaves wandered about looking for spouses, children, or parents whom they had been forcibly separated years before
500
What was the Underground Railroad? 
how 130,000 refugees escaped the slave South.
500
Slavery made all white feel_______________.
as if they were free and equal members of a master race