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Freedman (3,160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

community of Creoles of color, or free people of color. New Orleans had the largest community of free people of color, well-established before the U.S

Red beans and rice (550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1804, thousands of refugees from the revolution, both whites and free people of color (affranchis or gens de couleur libres), fled to New Orleans, often

South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 (1,952 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

73% black. Having had a tradition of a well-established class of free people of color in the city, African Americans organized to defend themselves during

History of slavery in Florida (3,763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

140,424 people, of whom 44% were enslaved, and fewer than 1,000 free people of color. Their labor accounted for 85% of the state's cotton production.

Underground Railroad in Indiana (7,396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Despite the risks of being captured and sold into bondage, some free people of color illegally provided aid to fugitive slaves in the early years of the

1819 Indiana gubernatorial election (550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

state university, and adoption of a personal liberty law to protect free people of color living in Indiana. In 1818 he became embroiled in a controversy surrounding

Weaver, Indiana (1,352 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Liberty Township, Grant County, Indiana. Weaver's first settlers were free people of color who migrated from North Carolina and South Carolina to Grant County

Laurel Grove Cemetery (395 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ground (called Laurel Grove South) that was reserved for slaves and free people of color. The original cemetery has countless graves of many of Savannah's

Drum circle (1,628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

converged there. Congo Square was a unique space where enslaved Africans free people of color Native Americans and the allies of freedom would gather on Sundays

Melrose Plantation (1,991 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the largest plantations in the United States built by and for free people of color. The land was granted to Louis Metoyer, who had the "Big House" built

List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon (1,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for resettlement in Sierra Leone, where they set up a colony of free people of color. Deborah Squash was a slave on George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation

Montserrado County (2,879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

settlement by free people of color before sailing to Sierra Leone to pick up these colonists. On January 7, 1822, free people of color arrived and settled

Flag of Liberia (1,644 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

because Liberia was founded, colonized, established, and controlled by free people of color and formerly enslaved black people from the United States and the

Santiago de Cuba (2,300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thousand Saint Dominican refugees, both ethnic French whites and free people of color, and African freedmen, came from Saint-Domingue in the summer of

Shockoe Hill (882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

building. The long unacknowledged burial ground for the enslaved and free people of color, the "Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground" which in the 1870s came

Cecelia Pedescleaux (839 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

States. A solo show of 75 of her quilts were shown at the Le Musée de Free People of Color in New Orleans (2013–2014). Pedescleaux's interest in textile arts

Daniel Coker (1,798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

black children. Baltimore was a center of a growing population of free people of color, including several individuals manumitted after the Revolutionary

Harry Washington (1,079 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for resettlement in Sierra Leone, where they set up a colony of free people of color. Harry had been born in Gambia and sold into slavery as a war captive

Ashworth Act (1,558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and free people of color, and took the draconian measure of forcing those already in Texas to leave. In the next paragraph, free people of color already

Demographics of Virginia (2,377 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

population of 1.6 million. In colonial Virginia the majority of free people of color were descended from marriages or relationships of white men (servants

Colored Conventions Movement (2,857 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Free People of Color in these United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1834 Fourth Annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Color

History of slavery in Louisiana (2,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

historic French system related to the status of gens de couleur libres (free people of color), often born to white fathers and their mixed-race partners, a far

Benjamin Frank Adair (186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

father moved the family to Oberlin, Ohio, when Arkansas outlawed free people of color (Arkansas's Free Negro Expulsion Act of 1859). The father freed his

Thoroughfare, Virginia (67 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the 1940s as a community founded by former slaves. As a place name, Thoroughfare is no longer in common use. Free People Of Color At Thoroughfare v t e

Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground (1,342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of two municipal burial grounds established for the interment of free people of color and the enslaved in the city of Richmond, Virginia. It is located

Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida (1,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for certain rights to free people of color. Kingsley attempted to influence Florida lawmakers to recognize free people of color and allow mixed-race children

Liberia (13,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"repatriation" of free people of color as a way to avoid slave rebellions. In 1822, the American Colonization Society began sending free people of color to the Pepper

Elias B. Caldwell (398 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

were organizing members of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color in the United States. Caldwell was the organization's secretary,

Attakapas County, Orleans Territory (636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Attakapas District census of 1803 listed "2,270 whites, 210 free people of color, 1,266 slaves; in all 3,746 souls." The region became a major center

Earl Barthé (534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

woman from Haiti. The family was known in the term of the time as "free people of color." Over the years, the family has worked on many historic buildings

Bainbridge County, Mississippi (235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

families from the southeastern United States, including a number of free people of color. A state census, "An account of the increase and decrease of the

Year of the Lash (1,544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

alias Plácido, a free Mulato, and one of Cuba’s most famous poets. Free people of color made up almost half of those sentenced to death. During interrogation

Jules Lion (351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

omission from significant early-20th-century histories of Louisiana free people of color (e.g., Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire, by Rodolphe Desdunes), suggests

Major D'Aquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color (1,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Free Men of Color was a Louisiana Militia unit consisting of free people of color which fought in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812

Lecompton Constitution (897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

included provisions to protect slaveholding in the state and to exclude free people of color from its bill of rights. Slavery was the subject of Article 7, which

Second line (parades) (1,474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Clubs" because white insurance companies often refused to cover free people of color and/or the formerly enslaved. SAPCs assisted members through illness

Jay Kinsbruner (548 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and Buenos Aires (Westview Press, 1987) Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Duke University

Zydeco (2,123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

restrictions and rights for gens de couleur libres, a growing class of free people of color. They had the right to own land, something few blacks in the American

Black Patriot (1,051 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cause in exchange for emancipation, Patriot leaders began to recruit free people of color in New England and other East Coast regions to serve in the Continental

Isle of Canes (1,746 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

for economic viability by freed slaves in colonial Louisiana in "Free People of Color in Spanish Colonial Natchitoches: Manumission and Dependency on the

History of Maryland (10,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

after the American Revolution. Baltimore had the highest number of free people of color of any city in the United States. Maryland was among the four divided

Potter's field (1,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

maps in the 1870s. It was/is likely the largest burial ground for free people of color and the enslaved in the United States. The number of estimated interments

William Lloyd Garrison (6,240 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color. 236 pp. Boston: Garrison and Knapp. Garrison, William Lloyd (1843)

Cane River (241 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

origins were classed Creoles of color, gens de couleur libre, or free people of color. Today, the term Créole, when applied to Louisianians, usually references

William Lloyd Garrison (6,240 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color. 236 pp. Boston: Garrison and Knapp. Garrison, William Lloyd (1843)

African Civilization Society (1,939 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American self-determination by establishing a colony of free people of color in Yorubaland. Additionally, the organization intended the colony

Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground (3,864 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

established by the city of Richmond, Virginia, for the interment of free people of color, and the enslaved. The heart of this now invisible burying ground

Freetown (East Hampton) (789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

households of color were listed in the 1810 Federal Census with 76 free people of color total. Some of Freetown's pioneering households of color endured

Eulalie de Mandéville (528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

32 slaves, and as such she was the largest slaveholder among the free people of color in New Orleans; she was however far below the Black slave owning

Marie Kingué (218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as enemies among both slaves and slave owners, black, white and free people of color. She was reported to the authorities in 1785 for quackery and accused

History of Saint Lucia (2,602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lacrosse arrived with revolutionary pamphlets, and the poor whites and free people of color began to arm themselves as patriots. On 1 Feb. 1793, France declared

McDonoghville (519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

McDonough leased and sold these properties to white laborers and free people of color, including people he'd previously held as slaves and hoped to prepare

James George Barbadoes (3,281 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

represented Massachusetts as delegates to the First National Convention of Free People of Color, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - James G. Barbadoes, a hairdresser

Culture of Liberia (2,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

has also produced its own American-influenced quilts. The American free people of color and former slaves who emigrated to Liberia brought with them their

1786 (2,239 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Sybil, ed. (2000). Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-8071-4205-9

Albert G. Jenkins (1,242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

direction, abducted hundreds of African Americans (most of them free people of color with a few being fugitive slaves), all of whom were forcibly sent

Primus P. Mason (1,458 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Springfield, Massachusetts. His parents, Jordan and Lurania Mason, were free people of color and Primus was one of seven children. Upon his death, a newspaper

Mary Elizabeth Lange (1,337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baltimore, Maryland by 1813. Baltimore had a large population of free people of color, who already outnumbered the city's enslaved population. Among the

Fried chicken (3,471 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Kein, Sybil (2000). Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color. LSU Press. pp. 246–247. ISBN 978-0-8071-2601-1. Creole fried chicken

White Puerto Ricans (3,705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

privileges thereof, including holding public office. As a result, many free people of color sought the status of legal whiteness but were required to prove "free

Richmond National Cemetery (881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ground" was Shockoe Hill Cemetery's segregated burying ground for free people of color, and the enslaved. Military veterans from later eras are also buried

The Evening and the Morning Star (750 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Elders' Journal Millennial Star List of Latter Day Saint periodicals "Free People of Color," The Evening and the Morning Star, July 1833, p. 109. Letter from

House slave (1,787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French Legislative Assembly extended full rights of citizenship to free people of color or mulattoes (gens de couleur libres) and free blacks. In many households

Thomas Overton Moore (954 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Louisiana State University Press, 1963, ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, p. 4 "Free people of Color in Louisiana". WAFB Staff (14 July 2016). "State's oldest Governor's

Washington, Louisiana (1,224 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-0-87049-917-3. Neidenbach, Elizabeth Clark (April 28, 2011). "Free People of Color from the Early American Period through the Civil War". 64 Parishes

Beech Settlement (2,512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Ripley Township, Rush County, Indiana. Its early settlers were free people of color (most of them migrated from eastern North Carolina and Virginia)

Charles Lucien Lambert (496 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a free Creole woman of color. They were a very musical family. Free people of color constituted a special class in New Orleans, where they had privileges

Robert S. Rose (363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Slavery ended in New York state in 1827, and the 1830 Census shows 3 free people of color in his household and no slaves. In an unusual migration path, Rose

Scotland County, Missouri (2,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

county in 1834. In 1850 Scotland County had 157 slaves or other "non-free people of color", but by the 1860 census that number had dropped to 131. Farming

The Underground Railroad (miniseries) (1,818 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the Afro-American founding couple, Gloria and John Valentine. As free people of color, the settlers are even allowed to bear firearms. Royal explains to

Armée Indigène (4,642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of color such as Julien Raimond and Vincent Oge had tried to get free people of color the rights that belonged to them by representing the colonies in

Black Mormons (5,936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

began changing its policies. In 1833, the church stopped admitting free people of color into the Church for unknown reasons.: 13 In 1835, the official church

Rosette Rochon (430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marigny felt more comfortable with the French-speaking, Catholic free people of color (having relatives, lovers, and even children on this side of the

Roberts Settlement (2,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

County, Indiana. Dating from the 1830s, its first settlers were free people of color, most of whom migrated from Beech Settlement, located 40 miles (64 km)

St. Vincent de Paul Church (Baltimore, Maryland) (1,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Unique among churches during this time period, St. Vincent's welcomed free people of color and slaves. Depressions in the floor in the rear of the church still

Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District (1,207 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hill African Burying Ground is likely the largest burial ground for free people of color and the enslaved in the United States. It is conservatively estimated

Isham Sweat (184 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

com. Jr, Warren Eugene Milteer (July 1, 2020). North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715–1885. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807173787 – via Google Books. Andrews

Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park (2,283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inhabited by European Americans, their slaves, and very small number of free people of color. A railroad line was built along the northern edge of the prairie