Vocab

**Vocabulary Words**

 * mulatto**-(noun) someone who has one white parent and one black parent.


 * abolitionist**- (noun) a person who advocated the abolition of slavery before the civil war.


 * colic**- (noun) a pain in the abdomen or bowels.


 * grits**- (noun) coarsely grounded hominy, boiled and sometimes fried.


 * trough**- (noun) a long, narrow, open receptacle which is chiefly used for animals to eat out of.

She's a //Creole//.
 * Creole**-(noun) a person born in Louisiana, but of usually French ancestry. (page 15)


 * indigo**-(noun) a blue dye obtained from various plants.


 * ails**- (verb) to feel ill or have a pain.

Granny //brooded// over' em like a rooster over a flock of hens.
 * brood**- (noun) a number of young produced or hatched at one time (page 3)

Folks said I had a //hangdog// look.
 * hangdog**-(adjective) suitable to a degraded or contemptible person; furtive, sneaky (page 12)

They were ready for //courting//.
 * courting**- (verb) to try to gain the love or affections of, especially to seek to marry (page 117)