What's the difference between freedmen and freemen?
Freedmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Freedman
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirteen black patients with diagnoses of pseudotumor cerebri (benign intracranial hypertension) were treated in Howard University (Freedmen's Hospital) between 1962 and 1974.
(2) The group was spearheaded by Dr. Roland B. Scott and Dr. Angella Ferguson, both of whom were members of the Department of Pediatrics at Freedmen's Hospital (now Howard University Hospital).This group was perhaps the first of its kind, and adopted as its goals education and family support as well as fund-raising to aid in the support of research.
(3) In this perspective, the differences observed between the two Roman populations and between the sexes (in Isola Sacra) appear to result from different social habits: the middle class population of Portus habitually used thermal baths, whereas it is probable that thermae were seldom frequented (if at all) by the Lucus Feroniae population represented in the necropolis (mostly composed by slaves or freedmen farm laborers).
(4) A number of methadone-treated pregnant women deliver their infants at Freedmen's Hospital, affording the opportunity to observe neonates born to methadone-addicted mothers.
(5) Anthony was so upset with the idea of freedmen getting the vote before women that she frequently argued that educated white women would make better voters than ignorant black and immigrant men.
(6) A retrspective study was done and 61 cases of heroin-associated infective endocarditis were identified at Freedmen's Hospital and the District of Columbia General Hospital, Washington, DC between January 1969 and January 1973.
(7) From 1947 to 1984, 45 advanced ectopic pregnancies were delivered at Freedmen's Hospital and its successor, Howard University Hospital.
(8) She also wasn't above using racist fears to further her goals; after the 15th Amendment to the US constitution gave freedmen the right to vote, she argued that voting freedmen threatened the safety of white women (playing up fears of "racial contamination").
Freemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Freeman
Example Sentences:
(1) It was likewise only freemen who were protected from arbitrary imprisonment and dispossession by chapter 39.
(2) The principle he invoked was put to good use in 1996, when a standoff with a group called the Montana Freemen ended peacefully after 81 days, and again in 1997 in a week-long drama involving hostages held by a group calling itself the Republic of Texas .
(3) A decade later, during a long siege involving the Montana Freemen in 1996, outside intermediaries were so common the FBI allowed a clutch of them, including a couple who went off script and were never invited to intercede again.
(4) Written by Robin Miller of Birmingham University and Tim Freemen of Middlesex University, and turned into a digital tool by us at the Social Care Institute for Excellence , the resource is a practical, user-friendly, accessible guide that brings together tools to help people manage change.
(5) So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex."