Person who has been released from enslavement

Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.

Neither slave nor free : the freedman of African descent in the slave societies of the New World / edited with an introduction by David W. Cohen and Jack P. Greene.

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Freed persons

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Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.

Neither slave nor free : the freedman of African descent in the slave societies of the New World / edited with an introduction by David W. Cohen and Jack P. Greene.