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Free state   /fri steɪt/   Listen
Free state

noun
1.
A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies.  Synonyms: Maryland, MD, Old Line State.
2.
Any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War.
3.
A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997.  Synonym: Orange Free State.



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"Free state" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the rest of the world must resume its barbarism, after reasserting the sovereignty of Greece: but there seems to be no very great obstacle, except in the apathy of the Franks, to their becoming an useful dependency, or even a free state, with a proper guarantee;—under correction, however, be it spoken, for many and well-informed men doubt the practicability ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... the Congo Free State and other matters, I presently see one of my men sitting right in the middle of the road on a rock, totally unsheltered, and a feeling of shame comes over me in the face of this black man's aquatic courage. Into the rain I go, and off we start. I conscientiously attempt to keep dry, by holding ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... to like you and depend on you. I will give you a proof of it. We of the old school are determined to rule this country. If Congress admits California as a free State, there will yet be a Lone Star republic covering this whole coast. The South will take it by force when we ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... the "Congo Free State," which was at last made a sovereign power under international guarantees by the Congress of Berlin in the year 1885, and Leopold II was chosen its king. The state had an area of about nine hundred thousand square miles, with a population ...
— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois
... which introduced a uniform system of land segregation between the races. It resulted, as Plaatje shows, in the immediate expulsion of blacks, as "squatters", from their ancestral lands in the Orange Free State now declared "white". But Native Life succeeds in being much more than a work of propaganda. It is a vital social document which captures the spirit of an age and shows the effects of rural segregation on the everyday life ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje


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