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Region covering western Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, where low land prices and fertile soil attracted hundreds of thousands of settlers after the American Revolution.
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Ordinances passed by a colony or state to regulate the behavior of slaves, often including brutal punishments for infractions.
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A phrase used by whites in the antebellum South to refer to slavery without using the word slavery.
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Yeoman farmers who lived and worked on their own small farms, growing food and cash crops to trade for necessities.
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Cotton-producing region, relying predominantly on slave labor, that spanned from North Carolina west to Louisiana and reached as far north as southern Illinois.
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