| Group: | Freedmen |
| Popplace: | Oklahoma and Texas, United States; Coahuila, Mexico; Andros Island, Bahamas |
| Languages: | American English, African American Vernacular English, Mexican Spanish, Afro-Seminole Creole |
| Religions: | Diverse |
| Related Groups: | Mascogos, Cherokee Freedmen, Black Seminoles, Creek Freedmen, Choctaw freedmen African Americans, Seminoles, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Muscogee |
The term Freedmen refers to descendants of people of African American descent who were enslaved by the Five Civilized Tribes.[1] [2] (They often overlap with those who are descended from those enslaved African descendants who voluntarily joined the Seminole nation, including those who fled from the Seminole Nation, when it adopted the practice of slavery, to Mexico, today known as Mascogos.)
Regarding Freedmen, both enslaved and free, who were amongst these tribes, they, too, were forcibly deported alongside members of the tribes from the now-Southeastern United States westward to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears.[3]