Meaning of half-free | Babel Free

Definitions

Halfway or partially free.

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“Many half-free slaves were forced to continue⟳ to work⟳ for the Dutch West India Company even after they were set⟳ free, and the company even required half-free blacks to pay⟳ a yearly tax consisting of crops that they had raised on their farms.”

““Half-free” meant that the slaves themselves were now free, but their children would return⟳ to slavery. The Dutch gave a half-free slave named Gratia d'Angola a 10acre farm in the 1640s, centered around what is today one block⟳ of Greene Street between Prince Street and Houston Street, in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.”

“Yet first, the anonymous rabbis and students begin⟳ the sequence of explorations in legality of marriage between half-free people by using more general rules of betrothal.”

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