FREEDWOMAN Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

freedwoman

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Recent Examples of freedwoman 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. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023 Who would be more deserving of honor with an additional statue than the freedwoman who conceived of the monument? — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2020

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In a climactic effort to enjoin Willie and the President to go on without each other, the spirits—not least Thomas Havens, a Black freedman, movingly sung by the young tenor Joshua Blue—gather in an effort to occupy Lincoln together.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
The owner was believed to be a magistrate or a freedman of the imperial household.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026

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So did his friendly rival, John Adams, who wrote of his dream ‘…to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them.

— Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
Aponte, a freeman who had once served in the local militia, was part of a group that had sought to launch an uprising among the enslaved.

— Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026

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