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Example sentences for "free person"

  • The killing of a freeman by a slave, especially if the victim be his owner, commonly punished more severely than if the same act were done by a free person, p.

  • For similar reasons the killing of a freeman by a slave, especially if the victim be his owner, is commonly punished more severely than if the same act were done by a free person.

  • In still another case it was decided that a free person of color is not competent in any case in a court of record, although both parties are of the same class with himself.

  • The statute excluding the testimony of a slave or free person of color against a white man has no application.

  • Mr. Widgery asked, if a boy of six years of age was to be considered as a free person?

  • The penalty for theft detected in the commission is four times the value, and for simple theft twice the value, of the property stolen, whether the thief be a slave or a free person.

  • No slave or free person of color can be employed in the setting of types in any printing office.

  • A penalty of $100 was provided against persons who employed any slave or free person of Color to set type or perform any other labor about a printing-office requiring a knowledge of reading or writing.

  • Among the early laws is one exacting a penalty of $500 fine for selling a "free person of color.

  • A general law of 1839 forbade the slave to act as a free person, that is, to hire his own time from his master, or to have merchandisable property and trade therewith.

  • Further, "no free person of color might keep a grocery or tippling house" under pain of a heavy fine.

  • It admits that the miracle stories are fables and even concedes that Christ was not divine, but maintains that his teachings represent the best wisdom of the human race.

  • This contradiction, argues Nietzsche, cannot be explained away in terms comprehensible to the human intelligence.

  • Having thus thrown down the gage of battle, Nietzsche proceeded to fight like a Tartar, and it is but common fairness to say that, for a good while, he bore the weight of his opponents' onslaught almost unaided.

  • The fifth declares void the marriage between a free person and a slave, where the former was ignorant of the condition of the latter.

  • What, however, one especially desires to call attention to is the delicious expression, “free person.

  • Being merely a “free person,” without prejudice in one’s favour in the eyes of the armed warders who abound here, it behoves one to walk circumspectly on Portland.

  • He speaks of the liability he should incur, under the Consolidated Slave Law, of dealing with a free person as a slave.

  • I'll say nothing of the liability I should incur, under the Consolidated Slave Law, of dealing with a free person as a slave.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    called after; fifth part; four cards; free agency; free choice; free cities; free education; free election; free from; free from the law; free gift; free inquiry; free labor; free labour; free love; free nations; free nitrogen; free persons; free public; free school; free spirit; free thought; free trade; freedom from; freezing point; great slaughter