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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freedman

Freedman \Freed"man\, n.; pl. Freedmen. A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freedman

"manumitted slave," c.1600, from past participle of free (adj.) + man (n.). The older word is freeman.

Wiktionary
freedman

n. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.

WordNet
freedman

n. a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedwoman]

Wikipedia
Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed either by manumission (granted freedom by their owner) or emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group). A fugitive slave is one who escaped slavery by fleeing.

Usage examples of "freedman".

But the earnestness of the inquirer was so manifest, he was so unmistakably absorbed in what he heard, that the freedman soon told him all that he himself knew.

As the reader went on to other passages less easy of comprehension, Pudens began to ask questions to which the freedman was not able to give a satisfactory answer.

When even Senators and knights had been stretched on the rack, and tortured with the heated plates of metal, it was not likely that an insignificant freedman would escape.

He was not alone, for the Christian freedman, whom for some time he had employed as his assistant, was with him, and was helping him to wind up the affairs of his office.

A more deplorable scene of ruin than that presented by the house when the freedman entered it could hardly be imagined.

Patrol Sergeant Eaton Freedman was in a crisp uniform custom-tailored to wrap itself around the three hundred pounds of coal-black muscle packed into his six feet nine inches.

Sergeant Eaton Freedman fastened his belt holster and shrugged into a pin-striped suitcoat that had been too tight before he tried to stuff a gun under it.

Fritz, come on around here and meet Patrol Sergeant Eaton Freedman and Johnny McLaren.

Cold as it was, after a few circuits Freedman began to feel more comfortable outside than in.

He pulled Freedman inside and started weaving through tables toward the dance floor.

Tiny stainless steel sink, tiny mirror, a shower stall Freedman would have been hard-pressed to squeeze into.

He and Patrol Sergeant Freedman were sitting together this morning, bonded by what they surely considered their personal failure on the paddleboat last night.

Sergeant Freedman repeated his sentiments from yesterday, when he was talking about the paddle wheeler.

Patrol Sergeant Freedman dispelled it almost immediately with an impatient bass rumble.

Patrol Sergeant Eaton Freedman looked up miserably from a desk that looked like doll furniture with him sitting at it.