Huck Finn Vocabulary

Abolitionist – a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery.

Capital – Money for investment

Cotton Gin – A machine that removed seeds from the cotton fiber

Discrimination – unfair treatment of a group; unequal treatment because of a person’s race, religion, ethnic background, or place of birth

Fugitive – runaway or trying to runaway

Overseer – Person who supervises a large group or its workers

Prejudice – an unfair opinion not based on facts

Secede – to leave or withdraw

Sectionalism – Loyalty to a region

Slave Code – the laws passed in the Southern states that controlled or restricted enslaved people

Spiritual – an African American religious folk song

Underground Railroad – a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North