noun. A woman who has been freed from slavery.

noun. A woman who has been a slave and is made free.

noun. a woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman.

noun. A woman who has been released from a condition of slavery.

noun. a person who has been freed from slavery

"If, however, there are several descendants of a patron or patroness, or of two or several, the nearest in degree is to take the succession of the freedman or freedwoman, which is to be divided, not among the stocks, but by counting the heads of those nearest in degree."

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freeman  freewoman  

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