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In many cases, those freed from slavery were incorporated into tribes as full citizens, known as freedmen.
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Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
Once federal troops left the South, influential white Mississippians, realizing that they were outnumbered by freedmen, got busy intimidating, killing, gerrymandering, and otherwise cheating their way back to absolute power.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.
—Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
Other laws prevented freedmen from having free access to public facilities.
—Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
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Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
Once federal troops left the South, influential white Mississippians, realizing that they were outnumbered by freedmen, got busy intimidating, killing, gerrymandering, and otherwise cheating their way back to absolute power.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.
—Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
Other laws prevented freedmen from having free access to public facilities.
—Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for freedman
Noun
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On Tuesday, January 28th, founding Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward will be recommended to the city council to receive the honor of becoming freemen of the city of Birmingham.—
Quentin Thane Singer,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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At the same time he was also appointed a freeman of the Drapers’ Company, the guild to which the haberdashers belonged.—
Paul Strathern,
Big Think,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Deeming it a religious conspiracy, the Senate issued a formal decree prohibiting the Bacchanalia throughout Italy—all because a lowly freedwoman wanted to protect her lover.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
8 Nov. 2023
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Instead, Nero fell hard for a lowborn freedwoman named Acte.—
Gaia Squarci,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Sep. 2020
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“Freedman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freedman. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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