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cotton gin
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machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton; revolutionized the cotton industry
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planters
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large-scale farmer who held more than 20 slaves
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cotton belt
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region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s `
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factor
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crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers
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Tredegar Iron Works
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large iron factory that operated in Richmond, Virginia, in the early to mid-1800s
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yeomen
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owners of small farms
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folktale
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story that often provides a moral lesson
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spirituals
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emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves’ religious beliefs
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Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
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rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families
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Nat Turner (1800-1831)
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American slave leader, he claimed that divine inspiration had led him to end the slavery system. Called Nat Turner’s Rebellion, the slave revolt was the most violent one in U.S. history; he was tried, convicted, and executed.
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