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Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, Dominica, c. 1764–1796.. In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
November 18, 1883 - The American Railway Association instituted standard time in the U.S. at noon; adopted from system first proposed by Charles F. Dowd, a school principal in New York state; North America was divided into four time zones, fifteen degrees of longitude, one hour of "standard time" apart; Sir Stanford Fleming proposed extension ...