and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not...
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the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the...
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Free Negro Springs is a spring in Benton County in the U.S. state of Missouri. A variant name was "Free Nigger Springs". The creek was named after two...
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private manumissions in the South. Little actual gain was made by the free Negro even in this period, and by the turn of the century the downward trend...
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It frequently referred to free people of mixed African and European ancestry. In British North America, the term free Negro was often used to cover the...
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Pennsylvania Abolition Society (redirect from The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage)
The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia...
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The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded...
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Land of the Blacks (Manhattan) (redirect from Free Negro Lots)
The Land of the Blacks (Dutch: t' Erf van Negros, also Negro Frontier or Free Negro Lots) was a village settled by people of African descent north of...
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Oregon pioneers "hated slavery, but a much larger number of them hated free negroes worse even than slaves". In 1843, the Provisional Government of Oregon...
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African Americans (redirect from Negro Americans)
slavery in 1865, an African American slave was commonly known as a negro. Free negro was the legal status in the territory of an African American person...
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