Freedman
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A freedman is a former slave who has been manumitted or emancipated. The first means the freeing of an individual by the owner, often through deed or will, and sometimes by legislative petition. The second more often refers to a general freeing of a certain group within a society.
While technically freedmen may be a feature of all slave-holding societies, where some slaves are freed, the term is most associated with the history of the United States. It is used to refer to the more than four million slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, state legislation, and ratification of the 13th Amendment.
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