Never Forgotten
One of our last living ties to slavery in the United States has passed. |
From the Equal Justice Inititative /
Daniel R. Smith, 90, passed away this week in Washington. He was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, The Washington Post wrote in his obituary.
Mr. Smith’s father, Abram “A.B.” Smith, was born during the Civil War on a plantation in Massies Mill, Virginia, where he was enslaved at birth and suffered as “a boy laborer” at least through the 1870 census, before moving to... | Read the full article.
Aaryn Urell
Daniel Smith, one of the last children of a formerly enslaved person, died on Wednesday at 90. He was an Army medic and civil rights activist whose father was born into slavery in the 1860s. His life was “a reminder that slavery was not that long ago.” https://t.co/lMbrubIF5E
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