William Johnson's Natchez; the ante-bellum diary of a free Negro.
Free Negro heads of families in the United States in 1830, together with a brief treatment of the free Negro.
There came from Culpepper a petition praying for a passage of the law for the encouragement of white mechanics by prohibiting any slave, free Negro or mulatto from being bound as an apprentice to learn any trade or art.
The North Carolina plot, moreover, was revealed by a free Negro.
The plot having been revealed by a free Negro, the militia was called out in time to prevent the carrying out of these well-laid plans.
It also provided that the freedman, free negro, or mulatto refusing or failing to pay a tax should be dealt with by the sheriff in the same manner.
And no distinction in this respect was made between the free negro or mulatto and the slave, but this stigma, of the deepest degradation, was fixed upon the whole race.
A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a "citizen" within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States.
James Hamlet, a free negro, who with his family had been living for several years in New York, was on that day arrested by a deputy United States Marshal as the fugitive slave of Mary Brown of Baltimore.
It was notorious that almost under the windows of the Capitol negroes were confined in public jails on the ground that they were fugitives; and that a free negro so confined might be sold for his jail fees.
An educated negro, it was thought, was even more obnoxious to the slaveholding southerner than a free negro; hence educated negroes should be multiplied.
Some planters, having no faith in free negro labor, refused to give the negro employment requiring any outlay of money.
Yet they were not in favor of emancipation in any form, unless the negro could be gotten entirely out of the way--a free negro being to them an abomination.
Slaves and affected to consider a free Negro as a useless if not a dangerous being" .
These notices sometimes advise that the slave has stolen from his master; often that he has a pass, and is pretending to be a free negro; and occasionally that a free negro is suspected of harboring him.
It seems difficult to account for the diminution among the free Negro population.
The Director expects to finish at an earlier date his studies of the Free Negro and the Development of the Negro in the Occupations.
Russell's Free Negro in Virginia and Brackett's The Negro in Maryland.
In the city of Knoxville, East Tennessee, where I last resided while in the South; there were several hundred free negroes, and I could readily distinguish a free negro from a slave when I met him in the street.
Strictly speaking, there is not a free negroin the limits of the United States!
Idleness, vagrancy and crime, the fruits of emancipation, There is not a free negro in the limits of the United States, Universal prejudice against the African race.
He was purchased by his father, a free negro, who gave five hundred dollars for him.
Colonizationists and slaveholders, and many northern divines, solemnly affirm, that the situation of a slave is far preferable to that of a free negro; hence it would seem an act of humanity to convert the latter into the former.
In my despatches from the south I repeatedly expressed the opinion that the people were not yet in a frame of mind to legislate calmly and understandingly upon the subject of free negro labor.
If negroes walked away from the plantations, it was conclusive proof of the incorrigible instability of the negro, and the impracticability of free negro labor.
As to this thing of free negro labor, I do not believe in it, but I will give it a fair trial.
This I took out of the earth and tendered to my master, having previously engaged a free negro man to take take his security for it, as I was the property of my master, and therefore could not safely take his obligation myself.
She was married soon after I redeemed her, to one Isaac, a free negro, and shortly after her marriage fell sick of a mortal disease; her husband a dissolute and abandoned wretch, paid but little attention to her in her illness.
Wherever it was found necessary to examine a free negro or slave, as a witness in any trial, no oath whatever was administered.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free negro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
