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A group of African American slaves posed around a horse-drawn cart, with a building in the background, at the Cassina Point plantation of James Hopkinson on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

codify— to create a system of rules or laws. In the context of slavery, it meant to create consistent laws about slaves and slavery. gendered division of labor— tasks and job responsibilities are divided up based on whether it will be done by a male or a female. These divisions of labor along gender lines are based on custom and belief, but are far from universal from society to society. infant mortality— the death of an young child in his or her first year of age.

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