English

Noun

ex-slave ‎(plural ex-slaves)

1. A former or emancipated slave.

   "…nearly half the Appalachian ex-slaves had endured fifteen years or more of enslavement, and they were old enough to form and to retain oral histories." (Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South: "Introduction" 12, 2003)

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