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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