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  • As she did so, Minucia shot me one quick, hard look, as if challenging me about the freedman's abrupt and unexpected extinction.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • The freedman's bureau acts, which Eric Schnapper discusses, are some evidence, but they also present many interpretive problems.

    Balkinization 2003

  • Like me, she was churning with anger after the freedman's death.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • The freedman's bureau acts, which Eric Schnapper discusses, are some evidence, but they also present many interpretive problems.

    Balkinization 2003

  • He shucked out of his rough tunic and freedman's cap and slipped on the exquisite robe.

    Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

  • After Lincoln's death he gave what I think is the greatest single speech on Lincoln ever given, at the dedication of a freedman's monument to the emancipator.

    The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America 1994

  • The decade fled away, — a decade containing, to the freedman's mind, nothing but suppressed votes, stuffed ballot-boxes, and election outrages that nullified his vaunted right of suffrage.

    Strivings of the Negro People 1969

  • For, as Mr. Owen shows, even if under any other circumstances we might excuse ourselves for delaying the recognition of the freedman's right to suffrage, because of his ignorance and inexperience, yet it would be utterly disastrous to do so now, when two-thirds of the white population will remain disloyal, even when conquered.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

  • But later on I got a freedman's allotment up in dat part close to

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • The decade fled away, -- a decade containing, to the freedman's mind, nothing but suppressed votes, stuffed ballot-boxes, and election outrages that nullified his vaunted right of suffrage.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

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