• Freedman

    Origin

    From freed + man.

    Full definition of freedman

    Noun

    freedman

    (plural freedmen)
    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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