ex-slave
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
- A former or emancipated slave.
- Near-synonym: freedman
- 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 12:
- […] nearly half the Appalachian ex-slaves had endured fifteen years or more of enslavement, and they were old enough to form and to retain oral histories.
Translations edit
a former or emancipated slave
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