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freeborn
[ free-bawrn ]
adjective
- born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, or vassalage.
- pertaining to or befitting persons born free.
freeborn
/ ˈfriːˌbɔːn /
adjective
- not born in slavery
- of, relating to, or suitable for people not born in slavery
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Maryland passes a similar law, which also states that freeborn women who marry enslaved men are considered enslaved.
Their new condition would prevent them and their offspring taking chieftaincy titles or marrying a freeborn.
Robert—a man born in Africa, enslaved in America, and now a free farmer—and his freeborn African-American herbalist wife, Mary, had worked diligently to ensure this security for themselves and their children.
The musical, about freeborn Black people and newly arrived Irish immigrants coexisting peacefully, for a time, in Five Points, a New York slum, during the Civil War, focuses on a fascinating American story.
The cast also includes “The Good Place” star William Jackson Harper as Royal, a freeborn Black man Cora encounters on her journey.
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