Across
- 6. a story that often provides a moral lesson
- 7. a large scale farmer who held more than 20 slaves
- 8. a crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers
- 9. A machine made by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove the seeds from short staple cotton
- 10. a rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families
Down
- 1. a large iron factory that operated in Richmond< Virginia in the early to mid 1800s
- 2. emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the south that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves religious beliefs
- 3. owners of small farms
- 4. a region stretching from south carolia to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid 1800s
- 5. a religous Virginian who led the harshest rebellion of the slaves