Definition of "freedmen" []

• Plural form of freedman. (noun)

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• "[141] There, they rise above the free-born, and even the nobles: in the rest, the subordinate condition of the freedmen is a proof of freedom."
• "[341] Catiline himself stood nearest the standard (eagle) with his most faithful followers, whose personal fate depended upon him; that is, the freedmen of his family and the tenant farmers of his estates."
• "What is to be done with the freedmen is the question of all, and it is the all-important question."