In a message dated 1/23/07 4:09:27 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
> There are no slaves currently living, or have been for at least 70 years or
> so.
>
Dear Yojsouth:
Actually the last slave died either in the 1960s or early 1970s who was a
young child at the end of slavery and was a centanarian plus when he/she died.
I can't recall the specifics. The last CW veteran died in the late 1950s and
was a former Confederate soldier. There are still children and
grandchildren alive of both CW veterans and slaves especially from those men who took
second and third wives when in their 60s-80s! Being a woman was a morbidity
handicap back in those days ;-(((
Anita L. Henderson
Anita L. Henderson
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