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Recent Examples of freedmanHis troops and bureau agents began voter registration efforts for freedmen in June 1867.—Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2025 Abigail Barnett and her father, James, a freedman of the Muscogee Nation, were deeded the land that would become Boley, and many other Black Creek citizens settled nearby.—Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024 Abigail Barnett and her father, James, a freedman of the Muscogee Nation, were deeded the land that would become Boley, and many other Black Creek citizens settled nearby.—Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024 But, when Dawes agents were putting together their lists, freedmen and their descendants were often kept on a separate roll, or not included at all.—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for freedman
On Tuesday, January 28th, founding Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward will be recommended to the city council to receive the honor of becoming freemen of the city of Birmingham.
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Quentin Thane Singer,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
At the same time he was also appointed a freeman of the Drapers’ Company, the guild to which the haberdashers belonged.
Deeming it a religious conspiracy, the Senate issued a formal decree prohibiting the Bacchanalia throughout Italy—all because a lowly freedwoman wanted to protect her lover.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
8 Nov. 2023
Instead, Nero fell hard for a lowborn freedwoman named Acte.
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