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freedwoman en · NOUN

Etymology

From freed + woman.

Meanings

1. A woman who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South. 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:

Forms

Relateds

freedperson · freedman · ex-slave

Translations (11)

it liberta (woman who has been released from slavery) · pl wyzwolenica (woman who has been released from slavery) · nl vrijgelatene (woman who has been released from slavery) · grc ἐξελευθέρα (woman who has been released from slavery) · grc ἀπελευθέρα (woman who has been released from slavery) · fi vapautettu orja (woman who has been released from slavery) · fr affranchie (woman who has been released from slavery) · ru вольноотпу́щенница (woman who has been released from slavery) · es liberta (woman who has been released from slavery) · la līberta (woman who has been released from slavery) · sv frigjord kvinna (woman who has been released from slavery)