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Serfs vs Freedman - What's the difference?

serfs | freedman |

As nouns the difference between serfs and freedman

is that serfs is while freedman is a man who has been released from a condition of slavery.

serfs

English

Noun

(head)
    • ----

    freedman

    English

    Noun

    (freedmen)
  • A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
    • "Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South." (John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race : "Introduction" 7, 2001)

    See also

    * ex-slave * freedperson * freedwoman * freeman