| 单词 | free paper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree paper free paper n. (a) (in plural) U.S. (now historical) = freedom papers n. at freedom n. Compounds 3; (b) a newspaper which is distributed free of charge. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal condition or rights of free man > charter of freedom letter of freedom1613 free paper1820 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > freedman > documents proclaiming status of letter of freedom1613 free paper1820 1820 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 17 May He [sc. a runaway slave]..was seen near Frederick..with a lusty young black woman, who had went off with him, and who has free papers. 1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 126/1 It was the custom in the state of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers. 1949 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 21/4 Ten semi-weekly free papers, with differing news and advertising, distributed in thirteen communities. 1987 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 15 263 Late in July 1865..a Kentucky slaveholder..complained that his slave Tom had received free papers from federal officers. 1990 Gay Scotl. Dec. 30/2 In the last edition of GS you printed a letter from Ian Dunn on the subject of the free paper ‘Action’. 2012 E. S. Wolf Almost Free ii. 47 They understood free papers to be important and honored the law, but they also saw men of color as not really men. < as lemmas |
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