freedman

See also: Freedman

English

From freed +‎ man.

freedman (plural freedmen)

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

man who has been released from slavery

Arabic: مَعْتُوق m (maʕtūq)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: вольнаадпу́шчанік m (volʹnaadpúščanik), вольнаадпу́шчаніца f (volʹnaadpúščanica) (woman)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自由民 (zh) (zìyóumín)
Czech: propuštěnec m
Dutch: vrijgelatene (nl) m
Finnish: vapautettu orja
French: affranchi (fr) m
German: Freigelassener m
Greek:
Ancient: ἐξελεύθερος m (exeleútheros), ἀπελεύθερος (apeleútheros)
Icelandic: leysingi m, frelsingi m
Italian: liberto (it) m, affrancato (it) m, emancipato (it) m
Latin: lībertus m, lībertīnus m
Macedonian: ослободеник m (oslobodenik)
Polish: wyzwoleniec (pl) m
Portuguese: liberto (pt) m
Russian: вольноотпу́щенник (ru) m (volʹnootpúščennik), вольноотпу́щенница (ru) f (volʹnootpúščennica) (woman)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ослобођѐнӣк m

Roman: oslobođènīk (sh) m
Slovak: prepustenec m
Spanish: liberto (es) m
Swahili: huru
Ukrainian: вільновідпу́щеник m (vilʹnovidpúščenyk), вільновідпу́щениця f (vilʹnovidpúščenycja) (woman)

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