To: lodi90
The last African born freed slave in the US died about 1930. In the lifetime of our parents/grandparents. Not so long ago. We stopped importing slaves from Africa in 1805. So unless one of those slaves born in Africa was more than 125 years old in 1930, I think your statement may be false.
22 posted on
05/30/2016 8:00:05 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy
The illegal slave trade existed up until the Civil War. There was a community down in Alabama I believe made up of Africans trafficked to the US just before the Civil War. Last one died about 1930.
24 posted on
05/30/2016 8:04:43 PM PDT by
lodi90
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To: ClearCase_guy
Children of slaves, born on American plantations, were also slaves, up until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Didn’t have to have been born in Africa and imported here, or 125 years old in 1930.
79 posted on
05/31/2016 11:02:55 AM PDT by
mumblypeg
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