freedman
IPA: frˈidmʌn
noun
- A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
- A surname.
- A German and Jewish surname from German.
- A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
- Alternative form of Friedman [A surname from German.]
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Examples of "freedman" in Sentences
- The ranks of the army called the freedman to the rescue of his race.
- A freedman is the proper person to carry a load on the street, not his patron.
- A Roman slave on being manumitted was called a freedman (libertinus) and became a citizen.
- The freedman is a successful trapper and hunter, and has by nature an insight into these things.
- Scamander's patron (as they used to call a freedman's old master) was next brought to trial, and with the same result.
- It was built for the colored refugees with a fund sent to General Saxton for this purpose by a ladies 'freedman's aid society in England.
- To supplement the work of the schools and churches in the religious training of the freedman was the great and blessed mission of the W.B. H.M. Society.
- This, unfortunately, is not at present the result of negro mental training, and it never will be, so long as the home-life of the freedman is the antipode of the schoolroom.
- They were ready when Emancipation came, and the amendments to the Constitution followed, to organize the "freedman," instruct and coach him, and place him securely into the Republican fold.
- On the other hand the Freedman's Bureau acted as his guardian and friend, looked after his interests in contracts, prohibited the law's barbarity, and insisted stubbornly that the freedman was a man, and must be treated as such.
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