Word: freeborn
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...Bacon was an ordained minister who was appointed by the U.S. government and the American Colonization Society to colonize Africa with freeborn blacks from the United States. His two companions died in Sierra Leone, and Bacon moved to Kent where his health steadily declined...
Some Australians will tell you they have a classless society. This is the merest fantasy. Never since human societies began has there been a classless one. We began with the most ironbound of all class distinctions, between prisoners and the free. The freeborn (the "sterling") were bitterly opposed to giving up their social placement above the ex-convicts and their children (the "currency"). But the "lower orders"--that is, most 19th century Australians--fiercely resented the pretensions of the nobs and were well aware that in a pioneer environment Lady Luck was a more powerful queen than Victoria Regina. This...