Throughout American history, there have only been eight black senators in total; in addition to Scott and Cowan, they include: Hiram Rhodes Revels (R-Miss.), Blanche Kelso Bruce (R-Miss.), Edward Brooke (R-Mass.), Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.), Barack Obama (D-Ill.), and Roland Burris (D-Ill.).
load burden referred originally to something placed on a person or animal or put into a vehicle for conveyance both load and burden are still used in this literal sense though burden only infrequently except in such fixed phrases as beast of burden and a ship of 1500 tons burden carrying capacity
Definition of freight for Students. 1  1 : goods or cargo carried by a ship, train, truck, or airplane. 2  2 : the carrying (as by truck) of goods from one place to another The order was shipped by freight. 3  3 : the amount paid (as to a shipping company) for carrying goods.  4 : a train that carries freight.