Frederick Douglass: Vocabulary (EPIC reading assignment)

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Across
  1. 2. network of secret routes/houses used by black slaves who were escaping and fleeing to the North
  2. 5. the right for every person to work, vote, own property, and live
  3. 7. The main character in this story
  4. 9. a person on the side of human rights who help black slaves attain their freedom by keeping secrets
  5. 11. picked food from plants
  6. 14. Where was Douglass born?
  7. 16. name of the first book Frederick Douglass wrote
Down
  1. 1. the place where Frederick Douglass escaped to, received his last name, and began speaking out against the act of slavery and a conductor of the Underground Railroad
  2. 3. laws passed by the Southern States to limit the freedom of the Black People
  3. 4. is the practice of one human being owned by another human
  4. 5. was a popular crop that exploded in production once the cotton gin was invented
  5. 6. was one of the first crops to become successful in the English Colonies of the North American Eastern Seashore
  6. 8. officially putting an end to something
  7. 10. the last name he took suggested by Nathan and Polly Johnson; abolitionists and conductors on the Underground Railroad
  8. 12. another name for the Confederate States of America where 11 states left the United States to form their own country where slavery and state's rights are an accepted practice for business
  9. 13. a huge estate on which cotton/tobacco is grown using slave labor
  10. 15. the separating of people into racial, or other ethnic groups in daily life