freedperson

Etymology

From freed + person.

freedperson means A person who has been released from a condition of slavery. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.

Why this word is great

FREEDPERSON — [Noun] A person who has been released from a condition of slavery. From freed (past participle of 'free', meaning 'made free') + person (from Latin persōna, 'human being, individual'). Unlike "freeborn," which denotes an untroubled, natal inheritance of liberty, or "emancipist," which is anchored to the specific historical machinery of penal colonies, "freedperson" is a stark testament to profound and precarious transition. It evokes the unfamiliar weight of a door key in one's own hand, the profound silence of a night no longer owned by another, and the precise heft of a legal document that both grants and defines; a word not for a destination, but for the lifelong labor of constructing an identity upon ground that was, until recently, quicksand.

noun

A person who has been released from a condition of slavery.“Like David Williams earlier, Smith looks at gold-rich Lumpkin County and tells the story of how a second generation of this unique group of freedpeople worked closely with the local white elites to obtain property, resources, and teachers to establish schools.”