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  2. Free Negro - Wikipedia

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    Free woman of color with quadroon daughter (also free); late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans. In the British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved.

  3. Free people of color - Wikipedia

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    Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, Dominica, c. 1764–1796.. In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.

  4. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    The latter half of the 18th century was a time of significant political upheaval on the North American continent. ... Approximately 5,000 free African-American men ...

  5. Category:18th-century African-American people - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century African-American women The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people .

  6. History of African Americans in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Originally arriving in the 17th century as enslaved Africans, the population of African Americans in Philadelphia grew during the 18th and 19th centuries to include numerous free Black residents who were active in the abolitionist movement and as conductors in the Underground Railroad. During the 20th and 21st centuries, Black Philadelphians ...

  7. Category:18th-century African-American women - Wikipedia

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    It includes African-American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "18th-century African-American women" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.

  8. Category:18th-century American people - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century African-American people and Category:18th-century American Jews and Category:18th-century American LGBTQ people and Category:18th-century Native Americans and Category:18th-century American women

  9. Land of the Blacks (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    The Land of the Blacks (Dutch: t' Erf van Negros, also Negro Frontier or Free Negro Lots) was a village settled by people of African descent north of the wall of New Amsterdam from about 1643 to 1716. It represented an economic, legal and military modus vivendi reached with the Dutch West India Company in the wake of Kieft's War.