Free African Americans
By 1770, there may have been 40,000 or more free African Americans in the Thirteen colonies.Template:ColoCitation needed This number may have included runaway slaves, descendants of early indentured servants, and black immigrants from the West Indies.
The status of free black people in colonial America was one of uncertainty, one between a slave and a free white. He was faced with special legal, economic, and social restrictions.
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The true, sick-hearted slave,
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And free land of the grave.”
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