and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not...

the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the...

Free Negro Springs is a spring in Benton County in the U.S. state of Missouri. A variant name was "Free Nigger Springs". The creek was named after two...

private manumissions in the South. Little actual gain was made by the free Negro even in this period, and by the turn of the century the downward trend...

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia...

George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination, segregation...

The Land of the Blacks (Dutch: t' Erf van Negros, also Negro Frontier or Free Negro Lots) was a village settled by people of African descent north of...

It frequently referred to free people of mixed African and European ancestry. In British North America, the term free Negro was often used to cover the...

Oregon pioneers "hated slavery, but a much larger number of them hated free negroes worse even than slaves". In 1843, the Provisional Government of Oregon...

The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional...

Negro Mountain is a long ridge of the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern United States, stretching 30-mile (48 km) from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland north...

The Petition of Free Negroes was a document created by a group of freed slaves who had fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War, and been...

slavery in 1865, an African American slave was commonly known as a negro. Free negro was the legal status in the territory of an African American person...

dated July 9, 1640:" John H. Russell defined slavery in his book The Free Negro In Virginia, 1619–1865: The difference between a servant and a slave is...

The Book of Negroes is a 2015 television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. The book was inspired by...

negro in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Negro is a historic term for people of black African ancestry or appearance. Negro may also refer to: Negro...

every free male Negro or person of color" who was found to be wearing a pocket watch. The same ordinance also imposed a $10 per year tax on free black...

those who remained enslaved, free Negroes were unwelcome in most areas of the United States. Before the Civil War, most free blacks lived in the North,...

Rice's fame, Jim Crow had become by 1838 a pejorative expression meaning "Negro". When southern legislatures passed laws of racial segregation directed...

be sued for any crime committed by the Negro; the Negro could not be sued. Under the new law, any free Negro or mulatto who did not register with the...

Vincent Joseph Del Negro (born August 9, 1966) is an American former professional basketball player. He was the head coach of the National Basketball...

The Magical Negro is a trope in American cinema, television, and literature. In the cinema of the United States, the Magical Negro is a supporting stock...

a free white State," says Villard, "and the heaviest voting against the free Negro was" in Lawrence and Topeka. With renewed determination, the Free State...

Negro Life and History. 1924. OCLC 802300957. Free Negro heads of families in the United States in 1830 : together with a brief treatment of the free...

Johnson was released from his servitude, he was legally recognized as a "free Negro." He became a successful farmer. In 1651, he owned 250 acres (100 ha)...

Look up negros, Negros, negrós, négros, or ñegros in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Negros is an island in the Philippines. Negros may also refer to:...

rebellion Negro Negro American League Negro Digest Negro Factories Corporation Negro Fort Negro league baseball The Negro Motorist Green Book Negro Mountain...

ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic...

and Agnes, remembered "being taken to the top of the Nauvoo Temple by our Negro servant Green, and viewing the surrounding country for miles in every direction...

Maria Bell "negro slave" John Edward Lindsay (Feb 1762–1762), by Mary Vellet "mulatto" Ann (November 1766), by Sarah Gandwell "free negro" Elizabeth Lindsay...