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ˈfreedman
[f. freed, pa. pple. of free v. + man n.]
A man who has been a slave and is manumitted, an emancipated slave.
1601Holland Pliny I. 245 Optatus his freed man (who sometime had bin a slaue of his). 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 63 the freedman of Tiberius. 1834Lytton Pompeii i. i, He thinks..to make us forget that he is the son of a freedman. 1870Whittier Soc. Friends Pr. Wks. 1889 III. 307 The Freedmen and Indians. |