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Sons of Freedom

British  

plural noun

  1. Also called: Freedomites.  a Doukhobor sect, located largely in British Columbia: notorious for its acts of terrorism in opposition to the government in the 1950s and 1960s

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.*

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They were Doukhobors of the Sons of Freedom sect.

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Until 1962, Krestova had been the ramshackle capital of the "Sons of Freedom," a fanatical sect of some 3,000 religious anarchists and a constant headache to the Canadian government.

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And the album's finale, the raving Sons of Freedom, is a discordant, fuzzed-out mess.

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He fared worst, save in the way of sociability, when following in the track of those gallant, thoughtless Sons of Freedom, the Garibaldians.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

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