freedman

From freed +‎ man.

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freedman (plural freedmen)

1. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:

     The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).

   • 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:

     Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.

• ex-slave
• freeman

• freedmanship

• freedwoman

• Federman, enframed