ex-slave

noun

ex-slave

noun

Etymology From ex- + slave.

1

A former or emancipated slave.

Near-synonym: freedman
[…] 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.2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 12:

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