freedman
pronunciation
How to pronounce freedman in British English:
UK ['friːdmən]
How to pronounce freedman in American English:
US ['fridmən]
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- Noun:
- a person who has been freed from slavery
Word Origin
- freedman (n.)
- "manumitted slave," c. 1600, from past participle of free (adj.) + man (n.). Especially in U.S. history. The older word is freeman. Freedman's Bureau (1865) was the popular name of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress March 3, 1865, and discontinued in 1872.
Antonym
Example
- 1. One rumor holds that he was born a slave on a texas sugar plantation in the early 1840s another that he was the son of a new orleans freedman .
- 2. Henry freedman is director of the non-governmental national center for law and economic justice .
- 3. One , a virginia freedman named harry washington , eventually settled in the african colony of sierra leone , where he built a plantation that he named mount vernon in honor of his former master .
- 4. But pulse is really more about full-time professional stock analysts like doug freedman , a semiconductor analyst at american technology research .
- 5. Dr freedman 's design , however , is invulnerable to such local disruptions thanks to the peculiar way in which energy is distributed throughout indium antimony .