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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html