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Definition of Free people
1. Noun. People who are free. "The home of the free and the brave"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free People
Literary usage of Free people
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1901)
"Yet Troup's fears were very real, and were intensified a few months later by the
action of the American Society for the Colonization of free people of Color ..."
2. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"ADMISSION OP OREGON AND KANSAS. Oregon frames a constitution. — Excludes free
people of color. — Bill for admission reported in the House. — Adverse report. ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"The Sixth Annum Report of the American Society for Colonizing the free people of
Color of the United States ; with an Appendix. Washington City, 1823. ..."
4. Cotton is King, Or, The Culture of Cotton, and Its Relation to Agriculture by David Christy (1855)
"The social and moral condition of the free people of color, in the British
colonies, and in / the United States; and the new field opening in Liberia for ..."
5. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"Whites, male, 258; Female, 216; free people of colour, males, 86; female, 114.
Upon the 19th of February, the return of the population of Dominica, ..."
6. Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery by William Jay (1853)
"ON THB CONDITION OF THE free people OF COLOR IN THE UNITED STATES. IT appears
from the census of 1830, that there were then ..."
7. The Southern Review (1828)
"The Tenth Annual Report of the American Society, fur Colonizing tlie free people
of Colour of the United States. With an Appendix. Washington. ..."