Sentence examples for free africans from inspiring English sources

Some 400 remains of enslaved and free Africans from the 17th and 18th centuries were discovered there in 1991.

Sixteen years after the remains of more than 400 enslaved and free Africans were unearthed in Lower Manhattan, a new monument will open to the public on Friday to honor a place once called the Negroes Burial Ground.

Schroeder's lab is now collaborating with Howard University in Washington, D.C., to analyze the genetic ancestry of a small number of the enslaved and free Africans who were interred at the New York African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan between the 1690s and 1794.

Morrisonville, established by free Africans in 1790, was bought out by Dow in 1989.

Enslaved and free Africans were largely responsible for the construction of the early city, first by clearing land, then by building a fort, mills, bridges, houses, and even the first city hall.

The video, which I had a chance to participate in along with Hofstra University alumni April Francis, a middle school social studies teacher in Uniondale, New York, and her teenage son Jalen Beatty, takes viewers on a tour of Lower Manhattan exploring the "often overlooked history of enslaved and free Africans in early New York".

There were also some free African-Americans.

In 1830s Philadelphia, fine woodwork and furniture became status symbols for free African-Americans.

If they functioned correctly, they could save a free African American from kidnapping or imprisonment.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in 1825 in Baltimore to free African-American parents.

Black abolitionists in particular opposed federal and Northern state laws that discriminated against free African-Americans.