freedmen

• “[141] There, they rise above the free-born, and even the nobles: in the rest, the subordinate condition of the freedmen is a proof of freedom.”

  The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

• “[341] Catiline himself stood nearest the standard (eagle) with his most faithful followers, whose personal fate depended upon him; that is, the freedmen of his family and the tenant farmers of his estates.”

  C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino

• “What is to be done with the freedmen is the question of all, and it is the all-important question.”

  Forty-Six Years in the Army

• “The enfranchisement of the entire body of males twenty-one years and over among the freedmen was the result of the adoption by Congress of a plan of reconstruction very different from that of Mr. Lincoln.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner

• “The chief concern in training the freedmen should be the endeavor to impart knowledge under such genuine inspiration as will awaken aspiration, stimulate desire of knowledge, quicken apprehension, strengthen purpose, and develop negro character in harmony with the truths of life and nature.”

  The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion

• “The recognized race leaders of the freedmen are their preachers and teachers.”

  The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion

• “Edward Hill was more than the foregoing; he was a fair type of a large class of colored men who were then as now struggling against adverse fate in the South, in the laudable effort to vindicate the good name of the so called freedmen of that section.”

  Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There

• “The last and most significant item in our review of the tableau of educational effort among the freedmen is the increasingly friendly attitude of most of the Southern States toward this enterprise.”

  The Education of Freedmen, part 2

• “+ The freedmen were the ones who were free from the old Roman contempt for productive labor.”

  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

• “The whites, all whose energies have been strained to secure control of their States, have been glad, in return for this success to yield a measure of other civil rights to the freedmen, which is already fuller than ought to have been hoped for in”

  American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)

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