ex-slave

English

Etymology

ex- +‎ slave

Noun

ex-slave (plural ex-slaves)

1. A former or emancipated slave.
   • 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South: "Introduction", p.12

     […] nearly half the Appalachian ex-slaves had endured fifteen years or more of enslavement, and they were old enough to form and to retain oral histories.

See also

• freedman