- A
freedman or
freedwoman is a
person who has been
released from slavery,
usually by
legal means. Historically,
slaves were
freed by
manumission (granted...
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especially among the poor. Freedmen's
Bureau agents initially complained that
freedwomen were
refusing to
contract their labor. One of the
first actions black...
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prostitution by
their master.
Freedwomen had some
opportunities to gain
public status, as in a
similar way to male freedmen,
freedwomen were
permitted to gain...
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Punic War, the
right to wear it was
extended to
plebeian matrons, and to
freedwomen who had
acquired the
status of
matron through marriage to a citizen. Stolae...
- 2012. Affranchise. Finley, M.I.; Treggiari,
Susan M. (1996). "Freedmen,
Freedwomen". In Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth,
Antony (eds.).
Oxford classical Dictionary...
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Illinois Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-252-02297-5. Farmer-Kaiser, Mary (2010).
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and
Public Policy in the Age...
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efforts shifted the
targets of ****ual ****ault from
Confederate women to
freedwomen because his men "rarely
suffered consequences for
their ****ual ****aults...
- of
entertainment for
Roman men. Most
prostitutes were
female slaves or
freedwomen. The
balance of
voluntary to
forced prostitution can only be
guessed at...
- housemate, Lucy Smith, were
attacked by a
white mob and were
among many
freedwomen who were
raped during the riots. In 1876,
Thompson was
arrested for "being...
- had wet
nurses (Latin nutrices,
singular nutrix)
among their slaves and
freedwomen, but some
Roman women were wet
nurses by profession, and the
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