Freedman
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A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves freed themselves through escape, self-purchase, or rebellion; or were freed throug
Cinerary urn for the freedman Tiberius Claudius Chryseros and two women, probably his wife and daughter
Arab-Muslim slave traders and their African captives in the Sahara, 19th century
Freedman with an old horn used to call slaves photographed in Texas, 1939
Maroons
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Africans in the Americas and islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and lived in independent settlements, were referred to as maroons in English, and as c
Freedman
…A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves freed themselves (runaways or maroons) through escape, self-purchase, or rebellion; or were freed through manumission (granted freedom by their owners), emancipation (granted freedom as…
18th-century illustration of a Maroon
Maroons surprised by dogs (1893) (Brussels) by Louis Samain.
Maroons in Suriname in the 19th century
1801 aquatint of a Maroon raid on the Dromilly estate, Jamaica, during the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.