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Free Negroes — former American slaves, who gained their freedom before the emancipation era of the American Civil War. Free Negro was the legal status of blacks who were not slaves . It included both freed slaves ( freedmen ) and those who had been born free ( free people of color ).
In Florida, legislation passed in 1847 required all free Negroes to have a white person as a legal guardian; [29]: 120 in 1855, an act was passed which prevented free Negroes from entering the state. [ 29 ] : 119 "In 1861, an act was passed requiring all free Negroes in Florida to register with the judge of probate in whose county they resided.
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
List of winners of the William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement Among Negroes List of African-American women in medicine African-American women in computer science
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In 1830, there were 14,000 "Free negroes" living in New York City. [2] The formation of black neighborhoods is closely linked to the history of segregation in the United States, either through formal laws or as a product of social norms. Black neighborhoods have played an important role in the development of African-American culture. [3]
The Mascogos (also known as negros mascagos) are an Afro-descendant [1] group in Coahuila, Mexico. Centered on the town of El Nacimiento in Múzquiz Municipality , the group are descendants of Black Seminoles escaping the threat of slavery in the United States .
Free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) — refers to people of mixed African, European, and sometimes Native American descent who were not enslaved in the era of slavery in the Americas. They were a distinct group of free people in the colonies of the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States.