Chapter 5: Antebellum Mississippi Crossword

a large agricultural estate
a simple and inexpensive machine that mechanically separated cotton fi ber from cotton seeds.
ideally suited for Mississippi’s climate
private teachers
The income from the lease of every sixteenth section in the township
law and custom, African American slaves were the personal property of their owners.
captivity, servitude
Field hands were usually under the direct control of another slave
Most town slaves lived in a small enclosed section of town
state laws regulating slavery
formal services in the white church, slaves usually conducted their own religious ceremonies
This society was to assist free blacks who desired to return to Africa
the principle that the rights of the individual states should prevail over the rights of the federal government
holds that all men, everywhere, are endowed by God and nature with the rights of life, liberty, and property.