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Definition of Freedwomen
1. freedwoman [n] - See also: freedwoman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freedwomen
Literary usage of Freedwomen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Divorce and Divorce Legislation: Especially in the United States by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1882)
"Married women, too, who had borne three children, or, if freedwomen, four, ...
Other men could ally themselves to freedwomen, and, as we have seen, ..."
2. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1906)
"[September, 1865] Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama, in
convention assembled, That all marriages between freedmen and freedwomen, ..."
3. Letters by Pliny, Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson (1915)
"... the freedwomen of Antonia Maximilla, a lady of high rank. It is at her desire
dI make this request. VI To THE EMPEROR TRAJAN I return you thanks, Sir, ..."
4. A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code by William Alexander Hunter, Gaius, John Ashton Cross (1897)
"In the case of freedwomen's goods under the old law, patrons suffered no wrong.
... But afterwards the lex Papia gave freedwomen, in right of having four ..."
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