Free Negro
Emancipated people of color / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Freedman or Free people of color.
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), whether of African or mixed descent.