different between freedperson vs freedman

English

Etymology

From freed +? person.

Noun

freedperson (plural freedpersons or freedpeople)

1. A person who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • 2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, "Introduction", page 7:

     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.

See also

• ex-slave
• freedman
• freedwoman

English

Etymology

From freed +? man.

Noun

freedman (plural freedmen)

1. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • 2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, "Introduction", page 7:

     Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.

Hypernyms

• ex-slave
• freeman

Derived terms

• freedmanship

Translations

See also

• freedwoman

Anagrams

• Federman, enframed