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Meaning of "free blacks"

free blacks: This phrase historically refers to African Americans who were not enslaved or bound by slavery. It represents a period when some black individuals or families were granted freedom, either through emancipation or by being born into free communities.

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Free blacks were no longer allowed to own land.
His parents were free blacks and owned a farm.
Weeksville was a community of escaped slaves and free blacks.
A few free blacks were able to get an education.
There are about forty free blacks in this picture.
Maryland was a state with a high percentage of free blacks.
Slaves and free blacks alike were buried there.
I can not endure free blacks.
It served both free blacks and the children of slaves.
It later became the first community of free blacks.
Many free blacks were able to become businessmen and leaders.
Its members were nearly all free blacks.
Free blacks expressed their oppression in a different narrative form.
Persons born to free blacks would be free from birth.
These men included both former slaves and free blacks.

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A small community of free blacks also settled in the old village.
Carolina and three other states allowed free blacks to vote.
Montgomery invited free blacks to settle the land and work there.
His parents were free blacks.
Free blacks facing a generally hostile environment occasionally operated small businesses.
Restrictions on free blacks.
Free blacks had earlier had formerly had suffrage in the state.
They had to compete with free blacks for unskilled labor jobs.
Opposition to slavery did not mean that all states welcomed free blacks.
Slaveholders believed that free blacks threatened the stability of slave societies.
The state legislature passed legislation further restricting the rights of free blacks.
The kidnapping of free blacks left their land and other property behind.
Many of these careers required large capital investments that most free blacks could not afford.
The membership of several free blacks and white men close to him has been confirmed.
Free blacks had restrictions on both their civil and political rights in most states.
Many slaveholders were worried that the presence of free blacks would encourage slaves to rebel.
But many free blacks lived in the countryside and some became major slaveholders.
It expressed the difficulties of lives of northern free Blacks.
Some free blacks chose to move their families north to obtain educations for their children.
Under its new Constitution free blacks are allowed to vote.
Free blacks in Haiti refused to work on the plantations.
Many of them were free Blacks and not fugitive slaves.
Free Blacks were frequently arrested and forced into labor.
The constitution forbade free blacks from living in Texas permanently.
Free blacks owned plantations in almost all the slave societies of the Americas.
And so laws were passed prohibiting free blacks from traveling in Indian country.
Most free blacks were born in the United States and wanted no part of expatriation.
This was the first effort to gently repatriate free blacks back to Africa.
The number of free Blacks grew during this time as well.
It was during that period that Keckly came into contact with free blacks.
They felt the free Blacks would be detrimental to the system of slavery.
However he also recognized the growing racial prejudice directed against free blacks in the North.
Slaves and free blacks petitioned the colonial government and Denmark to abolish slavery.
Slave catchers became common after years of free blacks and fugitive slaves escaping to Pennsylvania.
Many free blacks in the North fight with the colonists for the rebellion.

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