1. Huck Finn Vocabulary

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

3. Capital – Money for investment

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

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

6. Fugitive – runaway or trying to runaway

7. Overseer – Person who supervises a large group or its workers

8. Prejudice – an unfair opinion not based on facts

9. Secede – to leave or withdraw

10. Sectionalism – Loyalty to a region

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

12. Spiritual – an African American religious folk song

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