Meanings
nounfreedperson (plural freedpersons or freedpeople)
plural freedpersons · plural freedpeople
- A person who has been released from a condition of slavery.
Like David Williams earlier, Smith looks at gold-rich Lumpkin County and tells the story of how a second generation of this unique group of freedpeople worked closely with the local white elites to obtain property, resources, and teachers to establish schools.
2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7
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