GLOSSARY

Unknown/Unfamiliar words

  • Consisting of or lasting two-hundred years.

  • A building for housing a horse-drawn carriage and stalls for the animals. Today, many such remaining buildings have been converted into dwellings.

  • At approximately, in approximately, or of approximately—used especially with historical dates.

  • To occur at or during the same time.

  • The exchange of goods, services, or something of value between businesses or individuals.

  • In a really bad way that causes shock.

  • Discourage (someone) from doing something by instilling doubt or fear of consequences.

  • Of or relating to the household or the family.

  • A room in a house where visitors may be entertained; a historical term for what would now be called a living room.

  • People who are forced or born into slavery to labor (examples include: planting and harvesting, caring for children, cooking food, caring for animals, carpentry, and blacksmithing) for someone who purchased or inherited them as property. They live and work in poor conditions.

  • Clear and obvious to the eye or mind.

  • A hole, groove, or slot into or through which some other part of an arrangement of parts fits or passes.

  • A large piece of land on which goods (crops like cotton or industrial items like bricks) are cultivated or made by enslaved labor.

  • Buildings designed and constructed to house the enslaved.

  • A room or set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.

  • A tenon is a protruding shape that has been formed on the end of a piece of wood for insertion into a mortise. The tenon is often taller than it is wide.

  • Producing distinct mental images.