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freedmen

[freed-muhn]

Origin

noun, plural -men.

a man who has been freed from slavery.

Origin:
1595–1605; freed + man¹

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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freedman

"manumitted slave," c.1600, from pp. of free + man. Also cf. freeman.

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"The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica."

-Zora Neale Hurston

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