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Chapter 11: Cotton Slavery and the Old South


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Glossary

  1. manumission: The act of freeing a slave.
  2. planter: A term used to identify one of those southerners whose combination of land and slaves was such that they stood out as the prominent staple producers in their area. A social as well as an economic designation, it was used to identify the agricultural elite in the South.

 


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