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When did the last black slave die in the U.S.A?

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And what was there name, i recall someone getting interveiwed in the 1960 they were well over 100 then

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  1. Although your question has no definitive answer, the evidence, to date, leads to the conclusion that the last black born into slavery in the U.S.A., ELIZA MOORE, died on JANUARY 21, 1948, in Montgomery County, Alabama.

    Eliza Moore was 105 years old, it is reliably reported by G. C.. Gilder, Jr., of Mt.. Meigs, who said he recorded her age at 97 when he registered her for the U.S. Census of 1940.  Eliza was said to have been born a slave in Montgomery County, Alabama in 1843. Prior to the end of the war between the states, she was the slave of a Dr. Taylor, according to B. E. Bolser, of Mt. Meigs.

    NOTE:  I should hasten to add that the story of Charlie Smith, who died on October 5, 1979, in Barstow, Florida, and had claimed to be 137 years old and to be the last American slave, has been debunked.

    Charlie Smith stated that he had been born in Liberia in 1842 and came to the United States as a slave.   Later research indicated that he had been born circa 1874 or even later.  In particular, his marriage certificate, issued January 8, 1910, listed him as being 35 years old at the time.  He died in Bartow, Florida in 1979, at the age of 105, not 137 as he claimed.


  2. im sorry this right but i would say 1965.

  3. very intelligent question, i'd never thought of that aspect, makes that era seem very close.

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