The Society aims at the removal of free persons of color; it interferes, in no way whatever, with the rights of property.
In the great cities, and in various parts of the southern States, free persons of color constitute a laborious and useful class.
Thus the word “service” ceases even to be equivocal, for it was unanimously adopted as expressing “the obligations of free persons.
Another allowed representatives to the Slave States according to the whole number of free persons and “three fifths of all other persons,” in consideration that direct taxes should be apportioned in the same way.
In Philadelphia, though remote from a slave market, it has been ascertained that more than thirty free persons of color, were stolen and carried off within two years.
Free persons of color who shall migrate into that State, may be seized and sold as runaway slaves; and if they migrate out of the State for more than ninety days, they can never return under the same penalty.
Without a large increase of means, therefore, the Society cannot send out many free persons of color.
The northern states consented that in ascertaining the number of persons to be taken as the basis of apportionment, three-fifths of the slaves should be added to the number of free persons.
In the next place, the slaveholding states claimed a representation according to numbers including slaves; the non-slaveholding states insisted on a representation according to the number of free persons.
Every one would have felt it to be absurd, if the words had been, "the whole number of free persons, including farm-laborers.
It was necessary and proper, therefore, to specify whether, in the enumeration of inhabitants, they were to be estimated as free persons or as persons not free.
Free persons of color were not allowed to open schools in some places, teachers of Negroes were driven from their stations, and colored schoolhouses were burned.
It is highly probable that after 1740 this school was attended only by free persons of color.
At this time Maryland was not raising any serious objection to the instruction of slaves, and public sentiment there did not seem to interfere with the education of free persons of color.
Inasmuch as no prior statute had ever been passed, declaring who should be slaves, all were legally free; and therefore all came within the exception in favor of free persons.
As a component portion of this Union, the population of the South consists of masters, of slaves, and of free persons, white and colored, without slaves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free persons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
