Freed persons
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051692
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85051692#concept
Variants
- Ex-enslaved persons
- Freed enslaved persons
- Freedmen
- Freedpersons
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
- Freed persons--Charities
- Freed persons--Civil rights
- Freed persons--Economic conditions
- Freed persons--Education
- Freed persons--Employment
- Freed persons--Language
- Freed persons--Legal status, laws, etc
- Freed persons--Medical care
- Freed persons--Political activity
- Freed persons--Religion
- Freed persons--Religious life
- Freed persons--Social conditions
- Freed persons--Sources
- Freed persons--Suffrage
Earlier Established Forms
- Freedmen
Sources
- found: God struck me dead, c1993:CIP t.p. (ex-slaves)
- found: Oxford African American Studies Center website, October 4, 2021(Freed persons: in slave-owning societies denoted men and women who were black or of mixed race and born free or manumitted. More specific gendered terms to describe this group include freedmen and freedwomen)
- found: Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade website, October 4, 2021(Freed person: Person who was at one point enslaved and subsequently manumitted by self-purchase or by acts of the former enslaver, a judge, or the state)
- found: House Hearing, 106 Congress, Freedmen's Bureau Preservation Act: are these reconstruction era records being protected, U.S. Government Printing Office, viewed on October 6, 2021(The House passed a bill that established a bureau for freed men)
LC Classification
- HT731
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2023-03-08: revised
Alternate Formats