Whatever may be the bias of historians, it cannot be denied that this Parliament showed a spirit worthy of the representatives of a free people.
Whether the subjects of this Kingdom be a free people, and to be governed only by the common law of England, and statutes passed in this Kingdom ?
He belonged to a very excellent family of white people, whose slaves enjoyed every privilege that free people enjoyed.
The Fugitive Slave Bill had been signed but a month when Garrison pointed out in The Liberator that a northward trek of free people of color was already under way.
Other news shall follow, which shall stir our hearts to their inmost depths, till we wake to the full knowledge that we are a free people.
I wish I could think so, but I fear you will not become a free people without a sore struggle, and one which will entail much sorrow upon yourself.
In fact, in New Orleans a few years before the Civil War not less than one-fifth of the taxable property was in the hands of free people of color.
Above the people of this group, however, was a genuine aristocracy of free people of color who had a long tradition of freedom, being descended from the early colonists, and whose family life was most exemplary.
Throughout the South the slave codes became more harsh; and while it was clear that the uprising had been one of slaves rather than of free Negroes, as usual special disabilities fell upon the free people of color.
What most readily found illustration in New Orleans or Charleston was also true to some extent of other centers of free people of color such as Mobile and Baltimore.
Experience had but too fully instructed us in the possibility of the reduction of a free people to slavery by foreign mercenary armies.
God had made them a free people; He had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of slavery to Pharaoh.
And that deeper sin was this: they were a free people, and they wanted to become slaves.
It proposes only to afford facilities for the voluntary emigration of free people of color from this country to the country of their fathers.
Severe regulations have been recently passed in Louisiana, to prevent the introduction of free people of color into the State.
Claiborne, however, determined to procure a census of free people of color in the city.
Free people of color from other states poured into Louisiana in a steady stream.
But it can only be done by the active, interested labor of free people.
Such bodies as this are the convenient agencies of a free people to mark out the line of march and to select their leaders.
It is a type of what can be accomplished under favorable circumstances by a free people under a free government, where each citizen enjoys the full and undisputed possession of equal rights and opportunities.
The first, the clause prohibiting the entrance of free people of color into the State, passed first reading, but was subsequently rejected by a large majority.
The most exciting questions discussed were, a clause prohibiting the entrance of free people of color into the State, the boundary line, and the great seal of the State.
A free people under a free king--that was my watchword ten years ago; it is the same to-day, and shall be the same as long as I live.
Be so good, Sir, as to present to Congress my plain and hearty thanks, with a frank assurance of a candid attachment, the only one worth being offered to the representatives of a free people.
We wish our children to learn, that eminent virtue affords the highest claim to honorable distinction; and that among a free people, merit will not fail of its appropriate reward.
What we want we believe you are ready and eager to give as the free-will offering of a free people.
Great Britain had given them a Constitution under which they could create a great nationality, and had ever since regarded them as a free people and as a sister State.
The success of these movements would be as great a calamity as can ever befall a free people.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free people" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
