Citations:libre

English citations of libre

(historical) A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
- 1997, Kimberly S. Hanger, “Introduction”, in Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 1:
  Colonial New Orleans' free blacks (libres) inhabited a complex, ambiguous world with which many of their contemporaries in other late-eighteenth-century slave societies were familiar. The dilemmas that libres faced in forming their identities are also similar to those which Americans confront in today's multicultural, multiethnic, complicated society. [...] Libre women would extend that equality beyond the confines of gender.
- 2012, Janet Allured, Michael S. Martin, Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 1797:
  [I]n seeking to attain what whites had—and thus argue for a measure of equity — libres had to come together as a group with their own agenda. [...] Libre women wanted to reform, not revolutionize, a system that condemned them outright for being nonwhites […]

- 1997, Catherine Clinton, Michele Gillespie, The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 224:
  The man's desire to shield his casta offspring and potential heirs also helped secure some protection for his female consort, an advantage not overlooked by libre women.
- 2009, Quincy D. Newell, Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821, page 107:
  The 365 single and libre women baptized at age eighteen or older who married at Mission San Francisco averaged about nine months between their baptisms and their first marriages at the mission.

2017 — Gravinez, Sheila C., Milagro nga Nabuhi (17 July), Super Bilib, SuperBalita Cebu
Siya naningkamot nga mahimo nga modelo ang ilang barangay sa ubang mga barangay nga usa ka drug free ug nagpatuman og mga programa sama sa paghatag og libre nga tambal ug pagpaospital sa mga kabos, paghatag og lungon sa mga mamatyan ug pagpatukod og balay sa mga uyamot sa ilang yuta nga way abang.