FREEDMAN

Freedman

A freedman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves became freedmen either by manumission or emancipation . A fugitive slave is one who escaped slavery by fleeing.

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freedman

Noun

  1. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
    "Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South." (John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: "Introduction" 7, 2001)


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