freed slave
- freedmanReleased former slave
- emancipatedReleased from subjugation
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- slaveryOwnership of people
chains · liberation · Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · bondage · plantation · shackles · Juneteenth · runaway · contraband · Reconstruction · suffrage · citizenship · fugitive · auction · cotton · South · Lincoln
legal status
freed slaveslave
Owned human, forced laborer
bondsman · chattel slave · indentured servant · bondwoman · captive
power relationship
freed slaveslaveholder
Owner of enslaved persons
slave owner · slavemaster · master · plantation owner · enslaver