freedman
nounEtymology From freed + man.
1
A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
- The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
- Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:
- Derived terms
- freedmanship
- Related terms
- freedwoman