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Etymology[edit]
From freed + woman.
freedwoman (plural freedwomen)
- A woman who has been released from a condition of slavery.
2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.
Translations[edit]
woman who has been released from slavery
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- Ancient: ἐξελευθέρα m (exeleuthéra), ἀπελευθέρα f (apeleuthéra)
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