freedmen in English

noun
1
an emancipated slave.
Spreading through the plantation system, Protestant Christianity was adopted and adapted by African-American slaves and freedmen and most of their descendants.
noun
    freedwoman

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1. Over 50,000 people entered the lands on the first day, among them thousands of freedmen and descendants of slaves.

2. Lila Battiest : 66: F: 1939: Choctaw Freedmen Search card 893: First Previous (Page 2 of 2) Search

3. He headed “the Italian band,” apparently made up of recruits from among Roman citizens and freedmen in Italy.

4. Other articles where Seviri Augustales is discussed: ancient Rome: Emperor worship: Its principal custodians (seviri Augustales) were normally freedmen

5. New Republican governments came to power based on a coalition of Freedmen together with Carpetbaggers (new arrivals from the North), and Scalawags (native white Southerners).

6. There was also a small segment of the population made up of African as well as some East and South Eastern European slaves or freedmen.

7. Scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called Carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies