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...

word negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to denote people considered to be of Black African heritage. The word negro means...

Free Negro Springs is a spring in Benton County in the U.S. state of Missouri. A variant name was "Free Nigger Springs". The creek was named after two...

private manumissions in the South. Little actual gain was made by the free Negro even in this period, and by the turn of the century the downward trend...

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia...

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...

It frequently referred to free people of mixed African and European ancestry. In British North America, the term free Negro was often used to cover the...

Oregon pioneers "hated slavery, but a much larger number of them hated free negroes worse even than slaves". In 1843, the Provisional Government of Oregon...

George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination, segregation...

Negro Mountain is a long ridge of the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern United States, stretching 30-mile (48 km) from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland north...