The South

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Across
  1. 2. men hired by farmers and planters to oversee and direct the work of slaves on plantations
  2. 3. a crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers
  3. 4. owners of small farms
  4. 6. A machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton; revolutionized the cotton industry
  5. 9. A large-scale farmer who held more than 20 slaves
Down
  1. 1. a region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s
  2. 5. a story that often provides a moral lesson
  3. 7. tradition passing down stories, poems, and songs by word of mouth
  4. 8. turner 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.
  5. 10. emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves’ religious beliefs