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“Genius” shows Harrison’s King delivering that speech, strategically forgoing the dream-weaving to feature the line voicing his “conviction that there will be a better future ahead when negroes are finally free.”

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024

The treaty, Carleton declared, did not oblige the British to violate "their faith to the negroes who came into the British lines."

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2020

Once begun, he believed, “all the free negroes in the Northern States would immediately flock to his standard,” along with “all the slaves in the Southern States,” and “many of the free negroes in Canada.”

From Time • Dec. 15, 2015

In the twentieth century, Americans with different degrees of African ancestry who in earlier generations would have been described as negroes, quadroons and octoroons were all lumped together in a single category as blacks.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2012

Free negroes who supplemented their living catching runaways combed through the woods and wormed information from likely accomplices.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead