Freeman
Freeman noun - A person who owes allegiance to a government and is protected by it.
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Slave
Slave noun - A person who is considered the property of another person.
Usage example: many American slaves reached freedom in the North through the network known as the Underground Railroad
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- A group of slaves who were freed and became pirates altered this mark into one resembling a sun, which everyone on the crew, slave or not, adopted to remove the distinction of freeman and ex-slave.
Source: Slave Brand -
Also in real life, Jackson's cook was not a freeman as in the movie, but a slave.
Source: Film / Gods and Generals -
Thelma. In all three versions of the Catcher Freeman story, she participated in a deadly slave revolt against Colonel Lynchwater; although in Robert's and Ruckus' versions of the story, she was mostly a distressed damsel and a femme fatale respectively.
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