How to Use freedman in a Sentence

freedman

noun

• Yet the terms of such contracts could be onerous to the freedmen.
  — The Root, 29 Sep. 2017
• There would have been more time for freedmen to adjust.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn / Lit Life Columnist, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• As the authors remind us, black freedmen did serve in the ranks of the Continental Army—and suffer and die.
  — Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages.
  — Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
• Douglass demanded that the Union Army provide food and shelter for the Black freedmen.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
• Many were freedmen or even slaves, which may account for their low social standing.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• For the very first time in the history of forever, us freedmen and women were suddenly able to own a piece of our own land.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Mar. 2018
• Among the two hundred spectators, a quarter were Black freedmen.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• It was also meant to protect freedmen and women from assaults by Southern whites.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
• The historically black school had been established for the education of freedmen at the end of the Civil War.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• The community, founded as a freedman’s town in 1871, is rich in history.
  — Jane Stueckemann, Houston Chronicle, 2 Aug. 2019
• Memorial Day—first celebrated by freedmen in April 1865—commemorates the end of that war and the lives lost fighting over the scourge of slavery.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
• This ultimately stripped the freedmen of health care, food and housing assistance.
  — Essence, 2 July 2019
• But after freedmen had deposited more than $3 million in the bank, the bank began lending the money to White businessmen who couldn’t repay their loans.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Tanney was a freedman who tried to buy the freedom of his wife and daughters, but Limbrey’s ancestors refused and hanged him for attempting to claim his wife’s remains.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• Success, Ward and his benefactor hoped, would attract Black settlers from the U.S., as well as encourage the cultivation of staples by freedmen on the island.
  — R.j.m. Blackett, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• In those cases, Grills said, the freedman’s agency would be responsible for helping those who cannot establish lineage.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 June 2023
• In 2007, more than three-quarters of Cherokee citizens voted to kick out descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians.
  — Sean Murphy, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• His story captures the oft-changing demographic makeup of a neighborhood with a long history dating back to the end of the Civil War, when it was largely settled by freedmen.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• For the most part, officials left the freedmen’s fate to a group of teachers, preachers, doctors and abolitionists known as Gideon’s Band, a proto-Peace Corps unit that helped the former slaves establish schools and an island economy.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• For the most part, officials left the freedmen's fate to a group of teachers, preachers, doctors and abolitionists known as Gideon's Band, a proto-Peace Corps unit that helped the former slaves establish schools and an island economy.
  — Harrison Smith, latimes.com, 27 June 2018
• When plantation heirs tried to reclaim the land, freedmen forcefully resisted.
  — Daniel R. Mandell, Time, 7 Apr. 2020
• After the residents of Joppa resisted the proposal for new concrete batch plants in 2018, largely because air quality in the freedman’s town was already poor, the city was asked for air monitors, Schermbeck said.
  — Sriya Reddy, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Because of the 1866 treaties, freedmen were granted membership into the nation under which they were previously enslaved.
  — The Root, 26 Jan. 2018
• Having first modeled an idealized, kneeling figure from his own white body, Ball was persuaded to rework the pose based on a photograph of an actual freedman named Archer Alexander.
  — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2020
• But when Army generals began to fire Southern officials who were complicit in racist violence against black freedmen, Johnson responded by transferring the generals out of the South.
  — Erick Trickey, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Secundio, Zuchtriegel explained, was a freedman, having formerly been a public slave—essentially, a municipal worker owned by the city.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Demobilized Union officer Comfort Servosse’s fearless support for civil rights and the education of freedmen triggers hostility from his new white neighbors in the South.
  — Charles Lane, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• Surviving tombstones indicated the deceased were freedmen of Italian origin, plebeians or commoners and enslaved people.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024
• Shortly afterward, Wheatley was emancipated and married John Peters, a pioneering freedman.
  — Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024