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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white...

independent Republic of Liberia : its Constitution and Declaration of Independence : address of the colonists to the free people of color in the United States...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

most of the Piscataway individuals as "free people of color", "Free Negro" or "mulatto" on state and federal census records, largely because of their...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

found that most families of free people of color in colonial times were founded from the unions of white women, whether free or indentured servants and...

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...

colony one of the world's richest.[citation needed] In the midst of the French Revolution, enslaved persons, maroons, and free people of color launched...

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...

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...

research found that the ancestors of the group were listed as free people of color on census records. Paternal line descendants of Bryson Gibson and Valentine...