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Free People of Color
People ID: 24643
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- UPDATED: 8.11.2025
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Sheer Resilience: An Untold Story of a Free Community of Color in Orange County, N.C.
Strangers in Their Midst: The Free Black Population of Amherst County Virginia
More on the Free Black Population of the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Speculations on the North African Connection
Free Blacks in Colonial America
Blurring the Lines of Race & Freedom: Mulattoes & Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
“Not Negroes nor Slaves but Free People”: Free People of Color in the Colonial Southeast Indian Trade
List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. I
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. II
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. III
The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade
Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830
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