Someone who is indentured is essentially a slave, but they are working to pay off a debt they have with their owner or boss. Indentured workers have more rights in later years, and will most likely pay off their debts and be free.
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Free-Soil Party- A minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.
Fugitive- is someone that has escaped from captivity or is in hiding, an ‘escapee’.
Wilmot Proviso- The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso.
