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What (who) is -free - definition

NON-SLAVE BLACK PERSON IN PRE-EMANCIPATION USA
Free Negroes; Free African American; Free black; Free African-American; Free blacks; Free negroes; Free negro; Free Blacks; Free Black
  • Free woman of color with [[quadroon]] daughter; late 18th-century collage painting, [[New Orleans]].
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  • "Learning is wealth". Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa. Mixed-race slaves from New Orleans

-free      
-free combines with nouns to form adjectives that indicate that something does not have the thing mentioned, or has only a little of it. For example, sugar-free drinks do not contain any sugar, and lead-free petrol is made using only a small amount of lead.
...a salt-free diet.
COMB in ADJ
-free      
¦ combining form free of or from: tax-free.
Free Negro         
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. The term was applied both to formerly enslaved people (freedmen) and to those who had been born free (free people of color).

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Free Negro

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. The term was applied both to formerly enslaved people (freedmen) and to those who had been born free (free people of color).

Examples of use of -free
1. They were now free agents –– free to come, free to go, free to do whatever they wanted.
2. Free drinks, free food, incredible entertainment.
3. In noteworthy country developments, Ukraine and Indonesia saw their status improve from Partly Free to Free; Afghanistan moved from Not Free to Partly Free; and the Philippines saw its status decline from Free to Partly Free.
4. There are 8' free countries, 58 partly free and 45 not free, by its tally.
5. Free from racial and gender discrimination, free from poverty, free from fear and violence," Mbeki said.