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Source: Webster's dictionaryAlone among the societies that abolished slavery in the nineteenth century, the United States, for a moment, offered the freedmen a measure of political control over their own destinies. Eric Foner
And so abolitionists and freedmen and women and radical Republicans kept cajoling and kept rabble-rousing, and within a few years of the war's end at Appomattox, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing voting rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law. Barack Obama
Abbott, 2 The Pater familias was the absolute head of the family; he was the master over his wife, his children, the wives of his sons, the nephews, the slaves and the freedmen, disposing of them and of their goods at will, even putting them to death. Source: Internet
Alabama p 244-45 The new Republican party, made up of freedmen, Union sympathizers ( scalawags ), and northerners who had settled in the South ( carpetbaggers ), took control two years after the war ended. Source: Internet
After the war, northern missionaries founded numerous private academies and colleges across the South for freedmen. Source: Internet
But in the Deep South, many white citizens had not reconciled with the defeat of the war or the granting of citizenship to freedmen. Source: Internet