Across
- 3. A machine that removes seeds from short-staple cotton
- 5. A diaspora is the scattering of a people
- 7. folk songs that mixed African and European music and were often religious in nature
- 9. a complete end to slavery
- 11. These were men that farmers and planters hired to watch over and direct the work of slaves
- 12. Southampton county, Virginia, in 1831
- 13. Managed the cotton trade
- 14. was the voyage across the Atlanic Ocean that enslaves Africans were forced to endure
Down
- 1. owners of small farm
- 2. Production increased rapidly-from about 2 million pounds in 1791 to roughly a billion pounds by 1860
- 4. the passing on of stories,poems,and songs by word of mouth
- 6. or stories with a moral, also were part of this oral tradition
- 8. planters were large-scale farmers who held more that 20 slaves
- 10. had a natural resistance, to them
