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Peter Mills (October 26, 1861 – September 22, 1972) was the last known verified [by whom?] surviving American man born into legal slavery: he died in 1972 aged 110. [ 1 ] [ dubious – discuss ] Mills was born in Prince George's County, Maryland on October 26, 1861.
The last living former slave in Fairmont, Fairmont County, West Virginia. [21] Matilda McCrear: 1857: January 1940: The last known survivor of the Clotilda in 1859–1860, the last trans-Atlantic slave ship to arrive in America from Africa. [22] Redoshi: 1848: 1937: The next to last known survivor of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive ...
Peter Mills (freedman) (1861–1972), allegedly the last known surviving American slave S. Peter Mills Jr. (1911–2001), American attorney and politician from Maine See also
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
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In 2019, journalist Ben Raines helped find the Clotilda. He discusses his book, "The Last Slave Ship," and the triumph and tragedy of its descendants.
The Callaway Plantation, also known as the Arnold-Callaway Plantation, [2] [3] is a set of historical buildings, and an open-air museum located in Washington, Georgia.The site was formerly a working cotton plantation with enslaved African Americans. [4]
Some of Sebastian Corral’s memories have faded. But the 91-year-old remembers his 1953 arrival in the US as if it were yesterday. How workers like him were forced to strip naked and sprayed with ...