Freed persons
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051692
- info:lc/authorities/sh85051692
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85051692#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Ex-slaves
- Freed slaves
- Freedmen
- Freedpersons
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
Freedmen--British colonies 
- Freedmen--Charities
- Freedmen--Civil rights
- Freedmen--Economic conditions
- Freedmen--Education
- Freedmen--Employment
- Freedmen--French colonies
- Freedmen--Language
- Freedmen--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Freedmen--Medical care
- Freedmen--Political activity
- Freedmen--Religion
- Freedmen--Religious life
- Freedmen--Social conditions
- Freedmen--Sources
- Freedmen--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
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2022-01-19: revised
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