freedwoman


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nouna person who has been freed from slavery

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The extremely successful freedwoman, Antonia de Jesus, perhaps an acquaintance of Maria, noted that she possessed 90 pesos worth of fish in a 1640 will.
The midwife, a well-trained Greek freedwoman, had seen many a child into the world and knew that success in delivering the baby would depend partly on psychological preparation of the mother, who needed to be surrounded by expectations that she would survive this ordeal, though the midwife knew all too well the possibility that she would not survive it.
He very nearly concluded a legitimate marriage with the freedwoman Acte, by bribing consuls to swear falsely that she was of royal birth.
(58) Like Epicharis, the young freedwoman who starred in 'the games of the nobles' at fourteen, (59) she belongs to that class of woman not permitted in the welcoming party.
Nicarete was a freedwoman and married to a certain Hippias, a cook and probably also a manumitted slave.
With this he reanimates the barren ruins with their appropriate social set but risks atomizing the works' meanings according to the various subjects' social positions (elite male, working freedwoman, slave, etc.) in line with our notions of identity politics.
In 1963, the main theme of Salgueiro was Chica da Silva, the eighteenth-century freedwoman from Minas Gerais (Furtado 2003).
After all Claudia Acte was a hetaera--a Greek woman procured as a companion for highborn men--who through happenstance and cunning became a freedwoman in Ancient Rome.
But when I write in the voice of a Creek Freedwoman speaking directly to the reader in the early 1900s, or a Cherokee mother whose son has been killed in a car crash, or even when I'm using close third-person point of view, creating the internal monologue of a young black woman who has just been raped by a white man, well, yeah, I go there in fear and trembling--because race is America's perpetual hidden wound, and it can tear open at the slightest pressure.
Many freedwomen tried to stand up for themselves and their children, as was the case with Lavina Newland, a freedwoman living with and working for a family in Henry County.
Also central is the ship's second mate, who is passing for white, Zachary Reid, the son of a Maryland freedwoman. His likely soul mate is Paulette, or Putli, the educated daughter of a French republican freethinker and horticulturalist in Calcutta, who was adopted by Burnham after her parents died and was raised by a Bengali wet nurse.
and killed the prize captain and mate with an axe, and brought the vessel safely to the port of New York." Students were also introduced to a freedwoman washing the floors at a Union hospital who saved the life of a wounded and sick Union soldier whom doctors insisted was going to die.
My Conference Kinfolk: A Twenty-first Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots By Thulani Davis New York: Basic Books, 2006, 324 pp., $25.00, hardover