The Underground Railroad
complicated vocabulary in Colson Whitehead's novel
complicated vocabulary in Colson Whitehead's novel
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Cartes-fiches
to dazzle
to blind the eyes
to stave in
to chop off
cowrie shell
sea shell
crate of rum
chest of rum
to stagger the purchases
to put them into categories
port of call
port to touch
noxious air
poisonous air
hold of a ship
storage
to contrive
to manage
to stymy
to stop
chattel
slaves
gunwale
rim of a boat's deck
frigate
light sailboat
procurer
supplier
venereal distemper
lacking health beqause of sexual diseases
stud
mail horse
limestone
powdery white soft stone
pickaninny
young black child (offensive)
rock candy
hard candy
glut
abundance
to be in flower
to be producing (of women)
to be fettered
to be chained
coffle
slaves chained to each other
buggy
light two-wheeled cart
Whitney's gin
18th century cotton gin
dropsy
water collection in the body
whist
card game
layabout
idle
indigo
a herb
for a stint
for a while
pliable
kind, enduring
buck
male animal
froth
entertainment
mint
money printing house
predilection
preference
hankering
desire
Ham
son of Noah, cursed for looking at his drunkard father's nakedness
pus
liquid infection
boll
envelope of the cotton seeds
to keel over
to faint and die
