George III King of England during the American Revolution, with whom the Cherokee sided.
Georgia took up all of Alabama and Mississippi the taint of slavery made one Deep South state indistinguishable from another.
get right make amends, apologize, or atone for a personal injury.
glazing the work of a glazier in fitting windows, etc. with glass.
God's Ways and Negro pews contemplation of God's apparent blessing of white people, who continued to isolate black worshippers in segregated pews, often in the "colored balcony."
gone to Glory died.
haint a dialect pronunciation of "haunt;" a ghost.
half peck a unit of dry measure equal to an eighth of a bushel, or four quarts.
hazelnut stranger a visitor with reddish-brown skin.
he had company in the prettiest trees you ever saw Paul A is hanging from one of the trees of Sweet Home farm.
He won't be back Here Boy leaves because dogs are believed to sense the presence of a ghost.
head cheese a loaf of jellied, seasoned meat, made from parts of the heads and feet of hogs.
helped Andrew Jackson fight Creek the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, March 17, 1814.
hominy dry corn (maize) with the hull and germ removed and often coarsely ground (hominy grits); it is boiled for food.
horehound candy made with horehound juice, a bitter juice extracted from a horehound herb's leaves, stem, or flowers.
huckleberries the fruit of any of a genus of plants of the heath family, having dark-blue berries with ten large seeds.
Hush, hush. Somebody's calling my name. O my Lord, O my Lord, what shall I do? lyrics of a familiar spiritual used as a coded message. Such verses form a meaningful segment of black lore, particularly "Follow the Drinking Gourd," the lyrical reminder for runaways to aim for the Big Dipper, or Ursa Major, the constellation that pointed north toward the free states and Canada.
hutch a hut.
I been bleeding I have been menstruating.
I had milk an unusual occurrence that Sethe is both pregnant and lactating, since breastfeeing suppresses ovulation. Also, the likelihood that a woman can endure extreme trauma and still produce milk for two children is a rare example of determination winning out over cruel circumstances.
I'm a take I'm going to take.
I'm on dry land I have just cause.
in chambers in private.
in line the positioning of slave teams to work the indigo fields.
in the brace in a vise.
indigo a deep violet blue.
