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That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.
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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
Many other freedmen on the South Carolina Sea Islands refused to work for their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
Mexico elected a Black president, Vicente Guerrero, in 1829, when the U.S. Constitution still considered a slave to be three-fifths of a person and didn’t give freedmen the right to vote.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
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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
Many other freedmen on the South Carolina Sea Islands refused to work for their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
Mexico elected a Black president, Vicente Guerrero, in 1829, when the U.S. Constitution still considered a slave to be three-fifths of a person and didn’t give freedmen the right to vote.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
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“Freedman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freedman. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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