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1835, Joseph Holt Ingraham, The South-west volume I, Harper & Brothers, page 238, The negroes are more animated, as their winter clothing is distributed, their little crops are harvested, and their wood and other comforts secured for that season ; which, to them, if not the freeest, is certainly the gayest and happiest portion of the year.

1852 December, Schwartz Koff, “Conditions of Governmental Development”, in The Yale Literary Magazine volume XVIII, number III (December 1852), A. H. Maltby, page 118, […] that England is, next to our own country, the freeest nation upon the globe.