Freedman

Delmonico’s, America’s very first restaurant, is also one of its most influential, according to Yale University history professor Paul Freedman.

“Sylvia's in Harlem does not invent what is sometimes called down-home food or soul food, but it exemplifies that kind of cuisine and is also an example of the story of African American migration from the South to the North,” Freedman says.

The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).

Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.