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Mirabile: Slaves in the Family Test This is the online version of notes passed down year to year from people in her class. They pretty much are the test, when i got them, the test looked exactly the same. I read 1 page of the book and studied these notes and i got a 90 on the test, and that was only cause i ran out of time and didnt even do the last essay. Part 1: Vocabulary

Mulato- half black, half white child

Coverture- husband takes wife's property

Boston King- slave that ran away to New York, then to Nova Scotia, then he was freed by king George III.

Cooper River- River that rice field fed.

Step-Aside Children- non-acknowledged child by white slave owner

Henry Lawrence- Sold slaves to the Balls, married Elanor Ball.

Tuskeegee Institute- First Black College

Scion- where whole family is descended from one ancestor Bunce Island- where captives were held before being deported

Comingtee Plantation- coming's tee: man named coming and river fromed T.

overseer- oversees slaves

Slave Patrols- slave owning familys rode around after the revolutionary war looking for escaped slaves.

indentured servant- slave that worked for his freedom

indian diaspora- indians were pushed from their homelands

Gullah- hybrid dialect of African/English

flotilla- group of ships that sail together

tredmil-? we couldnt figure this one out, she makes you do 5 out of 6 of the vocab for each section anyway, just skip this one.

carolina gold-rice

fugitive slave laws- if slaves went north, they had to be extradited to the south

indigo- crop used to make blue dye.

lynchings-hangings

manumissions- page 190, or 307, act of freeing slave

share cropping-where a plantation owner rents out his fields for a share of the crop

Part 2: Quotes 8 quotes, choose 5 and explain signifigance and identify issue.

1. T. Henry Martin: "I consider all Balls are connected with my old master. I have them to respect. There are no white people that i respect more than the Balls." Page 197

2. Edward Ball: "The Balls payed little mind to taxes because the taxes on paper, paint, and manufactured goods didn't affect plantation owners whose black people made most everything consumed." Signifigance is that Stamp Act didn't affect most plantation owners so they weren't as upset with the British when the revolution came, that's why some became tories.

3. Edward Ball: "To the Ball family and friends it appeared that a menace was coming above the Mason-Dixon line.

4. Cousin Fits: "I don't want anything to do with this." this meaning digging into the past

5. Edward Ball: "The Ball plantations made a closed world. Pleasant at the top. Hard at the bottom. Resistant to change."

6. Edward Ball: "In November 1860 Lincoln won presidency without carrying a single southern state and the successionists seited the moment."

7. Edward Ball: "Most northern whites had a vague enthusiasm for black freedom."

8. Edward Ball Spring of 1862 near Hiltonhead South Carolina, Black Americans began to use surnames for the first time.

Part 3: Short Essays

1. Slavery Plantation issues. Explain character and its issues and how it relates to the Ball Family. Issues: 1. violence 2. treatment of slaves 3. isolation of plantation (slaves can't escape easily) 4. revolt 5. slave marraiges 2. Choose one other element or issue and explain its signifigance 1. Development of Cluster plantations on the Cooper River 2. Role of Ball women over time 3. characteristics of slave street and society 4. consequences of emancipation Part 4. Essay What are the most important lessons you learned about slavery and freedom in the book. Examples. The essay changed this year i think, it might be this one or another added on or something like that, i forget, but it was long. Maybe she just added another short answer essay, i dont really remember.

Links History of slavery, Slavery in the United States, Slavery, Manumission, Plantation economy,

-use this site to study for all her tests, its got online summaries of each chapter and objective tests similar to hers...