of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people...
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American Colonization Society (redirect from The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America)
Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn...
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applied both to formerly enslaved people (freedmen) and to those who had been born free (free people of color), whether of African or mixed descent. Slavery...
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times to refer to white people, mixed-race people, and black people, both free-born and enslaved. The addition of "-of color" was historically necessary...
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early 19th century amid the Haitian Revolution, refugees of both whites and free people of color originally from Saint-Domingue arrived in New Orleans with...
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The term "person of color" (pl.: people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered...
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Freedman (redirect from Freed slave)
growth of the community of Creoles of color, or free people of color. New Orleans had the largest community of free people of color, well-established before...
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Plaçage (category Louisiana Creole people)
known as placées; their relationships were recognized among the free people of color as mariages de la main gauche or left-handed marriages. They became...
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documented that many individuals were classified as free people of color, or similar terms in a variety of colonial, local and state records. Some CRP have...
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Melungeon (category Free people of color)
families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white...
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Acadiana (redirect from The Heart of Acadiana)
understood to include people of Acadian descent. Prior to the U.S. Civil War, Louisiana Creoles of color were a class of free people who either gained their...
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independent Republic of Liberia : its Constitution and Declaration of Independence : address of the colonists to the free people of color in the United States...
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Kentucky in Africa (category African-American history of Kentucky)
founded in 1828 and settled by American free people of color, many of them former slaves. A state affiliate of the American Colonization Society, the Kentucky...
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black) regardless of paternity and proportion of other ancestry. During the French colonial period in Louisiana, the term free people of color had applied primarily...
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Mulatto (redirect from Mulatto People)
Children born to free mixed-race mothers were also free.[citation needed] Paul Heinegg has documented that most of the free people of color listed in the...
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Mississippi-in-Africa (redirect from List of colonial heads of Mississippi-in-Africa)
the Mississippi Colonization Society of the United States and settled by American free people of color, many of them former slaves. In the late 1840s...
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one of the largest populations of enslaved people in the Confederacy, third behind Virginia and Georgia. There were very few free people of color in Mississippi...
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most of the Piscataway individuals as "free people of color", "Free Negro" or "mulatto" on state and federal census records, largely because of their...
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the 1810s, it is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and was initially the main neighborhood of its free people of color. Historically a racially...
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Haitian Revolution (redirect from Second War of Haitian Independence)
the former slaves had won, and with the collaboration of already free people of color, of their independence from white Europeans. The revolution was the...
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of free people of color, especially in the French islands, where persons of mixed race were given certain rights. On Saint-Domingue, free people of color...
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Affranchi (category Person of color)
but also a pejorative term for Free people of color. It is used in the English language to describe the social class of freedmen in Saint-Domingue, and...
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Code Noir (redirect from Black Code of Louis XIV)
of antisemitic trends in the Kingdom of France. Free people of color were still placed under restrictions via the Code noir, but were otherwise free to...
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Charleston, South Carolina (redirect from Parish of St. Philip and St. Michael)
efforts of the state legislature to halt manumissions, Charleston had already had a large class of free people of color as well. At the onset of the war...
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New Orleans (redirect from Parish of Orleans)
recorded 81 percent of the free people of color as mulatto, a term used to cover all degrees of mixed race.[page needed] Mostly part of the Francophone group...
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Jersey Dutch language (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)
1630, and by Black slaves and free people of color also residing in that region, as well as the American Indian people known as the Ramapough Lenape Nation...
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines (redirect from Jacques I of Haiti)
other Haitian citizens. Tensions remained with the minority of mixed-race or free people of color, who had gained some education and property during the colonial...
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was founded in 1816. It supported the settlement of thousands of free people of color to its colony of Liberia, in West Africa. There were also initially...
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or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War. The gens de couleur libres were the descendants of European settlers of Louisiana...
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development of slavery, racist ideology was developed among Europeans in Europe and European colonists, the rights of free people of color in European...
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