FREEDWOMAN Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

freedwoman

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Recent Examples of freedwoman 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 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

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These were to control the lives and control the movements, control any attempt at owning property, any attempt at physical liberty, really, for the freedmen.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Founded and incorporated in 1887, Eatonville became one of the first towns to be successfully established by African American freedmen.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Apr. 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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