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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
Among the free, the category of citizen was the largest, as it comprised both freeborn citizens and those who were freed slaves.
It is precisely his tria nomina that signals unambiguously that he is a Roman citizen, whether freed or freeborn.
Although she is freeborn, Alice forfeits her freedom by assisting her enslaved lover's thwarted escape.
Thus, without either a legal-status designator or filiation, it must remain uncertain whether he was freeborn or a freed slave.
Yet most art production in the Roman world was relegated to slaves and foreigners whether freeborn or slaves.
The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman.
I hope Mother Jones isn't insinuating that freeborn Americans may no longer even ask questions.
The defence of liberty was a potent rallying call against foreign enemies, but it also made freeborn Britons sensitive to the actions of their own government.
In it, he raged against the loss of liberty that the industrial revolution and interfering government had imposed on the freeborn citizens of Albion.
After all, freeborn Englishmen, headed by Wat Tyler, had rebelled against a poll tax back in 1381, and the memory of it remained in popular legend.
Schomburg was born on 24 January 1874 to an unwed freeborn mulatta, Maria Josepha, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and raised in Puerto Rico by his mother's family.
Or the England of the freeborn radical, the Levellers, Chartists, Tolpuddle martyrs and suffragettes?
And thus, says Gibbon, for a long time the Romans preserved the sentiments – or at least the ideas – of a freeborn people.
Shadd Cary was not only freeborn, but was also educated, articulate and had a sense of herself as a community builder.
And, of course, the rights of the freeborn English were not won from the French or German governments but from other English people who devoted the full resources of the British state to denying them.
All that gnarled, virile, rugged language was a sign of the cross-grained idiosyncrasy of the freeborn Englishman, as opposed to the insidious smoothness of the effeminate French.
In 212, during the reign of Caracalla, Roman citizenship was granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire.
In 212 AD, by means of the edict known as the Constitutio Antoniniana, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to all freeborn inhabitants of the empire.
By the time of Nero, however, it was not unusual to find a former slave who was richer than a freeborn citizen, or an equestrian who exercised greater power than a senator.
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It was not enough that a freeborn Afro-American should be caught kneeling to an Englishman.
Mr. freeborn suspended his breakfast operations, and sat back in his chair.
It might be well if freeborn American girls were as thoroughly protected.
He is a freeborn Roman, and is not to be done away with as a slave.
They are a freeborn, manly people and love the boundless steppe.
All this was very unfair on freeborn, though he had provoked it.
For that seems to be more fitting for slaves than the freeborn.
Do we not know that the worst deformity and ugliness of slavery are at once the cause and the effect of the reckless license taken by these freeborn outlaws?
Don't I live with an uppity woman who thinks a freeborn mixed Kentuckian like myself makes a fine house gal for anyone from Carolina who's got a Jamaican grannie?
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