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Once federal troops left the South, influential white Mississippians, realizing that they were outnumbered by freedmen, got busy intimidating, killing, gerrymandering, and otherwise cheating their way back to absolute power.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.
—Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
Other laws prevented freedmen from having free access to public facilities.
—Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
Many other freedmen on the South Carolina Sea Islands refused to work for their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
That history would be buried with many freedmen in the Black section of Savannah’s Laurel Grove cemetery.
—Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
Other laws prevented freedmen from having free access to public facilities.
—Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
Many other freedmen on the South Carolina Sea Islands refused to work for their former enslavers.
—Essence, 18 June 2024
See All Example Sentences for freedman
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“Freedman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freedman. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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