freedman

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see also: Freedman

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Noun

freedman (plural freedmen)

1. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • 2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, "Introduction", page 7 ↗:

     Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.

Translations

• Italian: liberto, affrancato, emancipato
• Russian: вольноотпу́щенник

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Freedman

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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