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freed·man

 (frēd′mən)
n.
A man who has been freed from slavery.
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freedman

(ˈfriːdˌmæn)
n, pl -men
a man who has been freed from slavery
ˈfreedˌwoman fem n
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freed•man

(ˈfrid mən)

n., pl. -men.
a person who has been freed from slavery.
[1595–1605]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.freedman - a person who has been freed from slavery
freeman, freewoman - a person who is not a serf or a slave
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Translations

freedman

n pl <-men> → befreiter or freigelassener Sklave
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To purify himself, is still necessary for the freedman of the spirit.
They brought to my mind the plantation, the cabin, the slave, not the freedman in quest of education.
Washington has won the gratitude of all thoughtful Southern white men, is to say that he has worked with the highest practical wisdom at a large constructive task; for no plan for the up-building of the freedman could succeed that ran counter to Southern opinion.
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Anybody that was put down on this Freedman Roll, their land became sellable or "unrestricted." It wasn't a matter of not having Indian blood.
Freedman, one of the keenest contemporary analysts of American Jewry, trains his journalist's skills on his own family to capture the fine-grained, intimate details of his mother's life within the larger historical context.
If you can wait--unless you're Gerald Freedman, who's got a feelin' there's a miracle due.
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Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were "too many Jews" on the government's Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman, the council's former executive director, told WND in an exclusive interview.
When Betty Holcomb ran up a credit-card bill and did not pay, the creditor hired the law firm of Freedman Anselmo Lindberg, LLC ("Freedman"), to collect it.
Los Angeles, CA, June 15, 2018 --(PR.com)-- Freedman & Taitelman, LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm, has obtained a Summary Judgement victory involving the estate of late television star Wayne Rogers, who was sued by ex-partner Melinda Naud for alleged unpaid child support.