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- noun Plural form of
freedwoman .
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Examples
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As he stepped onto the dock, crowds of rejoicing freedmen and freedwomen rushed around him.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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As he stepped onto the dock, crowds of rejoicing freedmen and freedwomen rushed around him.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Freeborn women who gave birth to three children or more were exempted from male guardianship four children or more were required for freedwomen to be eligible, thanks to the ius trium liberorum, the “three-child rule.”
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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In the first half of the book, Fortune offers a compressed history of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction as a context for understanding the subsequent position of the freedmen and freedwomen in the South.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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In the first half of the book, Fortune offers a compressed history of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction as a context for understanding the subsequent position of the freedmen and freedwomen in the South.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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In the first half of the book, Fortune offers a compressed history of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction as a context for understanding the subsequent position of the freedmen and freedwomen in the South.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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For one Sallust who ruined himself with freedwomen, there were five Cupienniuses; "Cupiennius, that admirer of the pudenda garbed in white," Hor.Sat. I, ii, 36.
Satyricon 2007
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In the first half of the book, Fortune offers a compressed history of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction as a context for understanding the subsequent position of the freedmen and freedwomen in the South.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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In the first half of the book, Fortune offers a compressed history of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction as a context for understanding the subsequent position of the freedmen and freedwomen in the South.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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I suspect she was brought up solely by slaves and perhaps freedwomen. '
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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