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The law was not intended to be enforced against whites but had the clear intent to restrict the civil rights of freedmen.
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Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
Or that namesake Robert Brent was pro-slavery and helped enact the Black Codes — laws banning Black people from being on the street after 10 p.m. in the city and requiring freedmen to carry their papers at all times.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2026
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo recasts Ishmael as a 17-year-old girl disguised as a cabin boy and Ahab as a Black freedman named Seneca, haunted by his father’s legacy of enslavement.
—Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 6 Jan. 2026
But Smalls’s heroic story and his personal plea to recruit freedmen to the Union cause must have been powerful.
—Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025
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Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
Or that namesake Robert Brent was pro-slavery and helped enact the Black Codes — laws banning Black people from being on the street after 10 p.m. in the city and requiring freedmen to carry their papers at all times.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2026
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo recasts Ishmael as a 17-year-old girl disguised as a cabin boy and Ahab as a Black freedman named Seneca, haunted by his father’s legacy of enslavement.
—Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 6 Jan. 2026
But Smalls’s heroic story and his personal plea to recruit freedmen to the Union cause must have been powerful.
—Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025
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“Freedman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedman. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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freedman
noun
freed·man
ˈfrēd-mən 
-ˌman
: a person freed from slavery
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