freedman
See also: Freedman
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editfreedman (plural freedmen)
- A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
- 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:
- Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.
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editman who has been released from slavery
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