Nightjohn Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Shrink in fear, cringe
- 5. Enslaved person forced to reproduce (have children)
- 10. Confused, foggy, having a hard time thinking
- 13. Valuable goods that are bought and sold or traded
- 14. Dried animal hide (untanned)
- 17. Yellow-wood tree with leaves that smell good, used for food or medicine.
- 19. Thin strip of wood
- 20. Prickly shrub, bush covered with thorns
- 23. Practice of witchcraft
- 24. A trader who purchases slaves to resell them for a profit
- 25. Long narrow receptacle that animals usually eat from
- 26. Hand, A person forced to work on a farm
Down
- 1. Heavy iron used to bind slaves limbs together (handcuffs/leg irons)
- 3. A white man hired to manage slaves
- 4. Poorly constructed house for slaves
- 6. Symbol of divine judgement/ God’s wrath (anger). “Fire and Brimstone”
- 7. Howling by animals, usually when they find prey
- 8. Short writing at the end of a story
- 9. Hard shelled squash-like plant
- 11. A bunch of disorganized people; to make noise
- 12. An estate where crops grow (related to slavery)
- 15. (noun), A slave owner
- 16. Animal fat used for cooking
- 18. To pass out from weakness; To be overwhelmed by a crush ♥️
- 21. Larva of a fly found when things rot
- 22. Mattress filled with straw