2) OVERSEER - A person who supervises others, such as workers.
3) ABOLITIONIST - A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
4) EMANCIPATION - Freeing someone from the control of another.
5) STATES' RIGHTS - All rights not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution nor denied by it to the states.
6) ATLANTIC SLAVe TRADE - the Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
7) Plantation - An area under cultivation.
8) Sectionalism - Excessive devotion to local interests and customs.
9) Slave Codes - Slave codes were laws which each US state, or colony, enacted which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. Such codes gave slave-owners absolute power over their human property.
10) Cotton Gin - A machine for separating the fibers of cotton from the seeds.