Definition of "ex-slave" []

• A former or emancipated slave. (noun)

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• "One ex-slave working on a plantation in Georgia had a good question for his northern employer: What was the use of a man being free “if he had to work harder than when he was a slave?”"
• "Escott tabulated all of the ex-slave interviews and found that 9.6 percent stayed with their master after freedom but were uncertain as to how long, 18.8 percent stayed for one to twelve months, 14.9 percent stayed for one to five years, and 22.1 percent stayed for more than five years."
• "The ex-slave Anthony Abercrombie remembered that one of his overseers was killed on the bank of a creek one night."