a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty.
a person who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other special privilege.
a freeman of a city.
Douglas Southall 1886–1953, U.S. journalist and biographer.
Edward Augustus, 1823–92, English historian.
Mary E(leanor Wilkins), 1862–1930, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
a male given name.
a person who is not a slave or in bondage
a person who enjoys political and civil liberties; citizen
a person who enjoys a privilege or franchise, such as the freedom of a city
before 1000; Middle English freman, Old English frēoman. See free, man
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The 69-year-old, who had campaigned to make Southend-on-Sea a city and was posthumously made the first freeman of the new city, had served Southend West since 1997, and Basildon before that since 1983.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2022
He said Armstrong definitely had a special aura about him as he accepted his honour as freeman of the burgh.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2022
She looked for a depiction of Balthazar or St. Maurice, two Africans who are portrayed in Renaissance art, and found a Balthazar made in Antwerp about 1515 that was modeled on a Black freeman.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021
“A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on a plantation,” Douglass wrote.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
While at the Pension Office, Jennings met a man named John Brooks Russell, a black freeman from Massachusetts.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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