freemen

Examples of freemen in the following topics:

• Powers of the Assemblies

  • Assemblies were elected and were called the House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
  • The colonial Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.

• Bacon's Rebellion

  • When they returned to the colonial capital at Jamestown, they found that the House of Burgesses had passed a number of reforms that limited the powers of the governor and expanded suffrage among freemen.

• Wilmot Proviso

  • For Wilmot and other Whigs, slavery was a fundamental threat to the United States not because of its brutality or coercive structure, but because it encroached on the rights of white freemen to labor and cultivate new lands in the West.

• The Dorr Rebellion

  • At the same time, the state's General Assembly formed a rival convention and drafted the Freemen's Constitution, which made some concessions to democratic demands.
  • Late in that year, the two constitutions were voted on, with the Freemen's Constitution being defeated in the legislature largely by Dorr supporters.

• The Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • The government began with a corporate organization that included a governor and deputy governor, a general court of its shareholders, known as "freemen," and a council of assistants.
  • Although its governors were elected, the electorate was limited to freemen, who had been examined for their religious views and formally admitted to their church.

• Economic Growth

  • The large population of slave artisans during the antebellum era had not translated into a large number of freemen artisans during the Reconstruction.

• The Rise of the Assemblies

  • The Assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.

• The Politics of Slavery

  • Some even believed that the abolition of slavery would be detrimental to their economic interests, whether by slowing the supply of slave-produced raw materials from the South or through increased job competition as thousands of freemen flooded the northern markets.

• Governors and Assemblies

  • The colonial assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.

• The Freed Slaves

  • At the end of the war, the Freemen's Bureau's main role was providing emergency food, housing, and medical aid to refugees; it also helped reunite families.