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Meanings of free black in anglès
Term used prior to the abolition of slavery in the United States to describe African Americans who were not slaves.
Synonyms
Examples for "free negro"
Examples for "free negro"
1
The ride afforded abundant opportunities of comparing the slave with the free negro.
2
A free negro so apprehended without a pass must pay the court costs.
3
What degrades the free negro to-day, is the existence of the negro slave.
4
The old masters were, as a rule, skeptical of the value of free negro labor.
5
His father was a mulatto and a free negro.
Usage of free black in anglès
1
Another friend, a free black man like himself, had been thrown in jail.
2
The second is that free black men would steal jobs from him and compete for land.
3
Sidney studied, played, drank free black coffee brought in by the cocktail waitresses, and played some more.
4
So the six slaves stuck close together, even avoiding the free black servants who worked in the hotel.
5
The statistics of this country show that the free black does not and cannot mingle with the white race.
6
I went to Adam White, a cooper, a free black, who had money, and asked him to buy me.
7
Shall your free black vote?
8
Eventually, she fled the Washington household while the family was having dinner, aided by free black people in Philadelphia.
9
In 1788 three free black citizens of Boston were kidnapped and sold into slavery in one of the French islands.
10
The best refutation of the proslavery argument is the presentation of an industrious, enterprising, thrifty, and intelligent free black population.
11
The historical drama tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.
12
British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays the free black man sold into slavery on Louisiana plantations, was nominated for best actor.
13
The overwhelming majority of Northern soldiers did not sign up to free black slaves or fight beside them in the Union army.
14
Toussaint, himself a free black man and a Jacobin, led the revolt in advance of revolutionary France's abolition of slavery in 1794.
15
Steve McQueen's film about a damaged sibling relationship, co-written with Abi Morgan, is a nightmarish, laugh- free black comedy about neurosis and dysfunction.
16
The free black savage has made a wilderness of Hayti, and our enemies in the North would make the same of South Carolina.