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Believed to be the last surviving person owned by a U.S. President (Andrew Johnson); visited FDR at the White House in 1937. [18] [19] Adeline Dade 1853: December 1941: Possibly one of the last living former slaves in New York. [20] Harriet Wilson Whitely March 15, 1855: April 26, 1941: The last living former slave in Fairmont, Fairmont County ...
List of the last surviving American slaves; Alfred "Teen" Blackburn (died 1951), one of the last surviving enslaved Americans; Cudjoe Lewis (died 1935), one of the last survivors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Eliza Moore (died 1948), one of the last living African Americans proven to have been born into slavery in the United States.
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.
Lewis and fellow Clotilda survivor Abaché (Clara Turner) c. 1914.By then there were eight surviving members of the Clotilda group.. During their time in slavery, Lewis and many of the other Clotilda captives were located at an area north of Mobile known as Magazine Point, the Plateau, or "Meaher's hammock," where the Meahers owned a mill and a shipyard.
Alfred "Teen" Blackburn (1842–1951), one of the last living survivors of slavery in the United States who had a clear recollection of it. Alfred Francis Russell (1817–1884), 10th President of Liberia. [15] Alice Clifton (c. 1772–unknown), as an enslaved teenager, she was a defendant in an infanticide trial in 1787.
Redoshi (c. 1848 – 1937) was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was considered to have been the last surviving victim of the transatlantic slave trade. [1]
Her father's name was Judge Moore and Eliza was his only child which he had in his old age. Moore was born a slave in Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1843. Eliza is considered by many historians as the last certifiable African American ex-slave in America. Moore is the only person to date whose claim can be supported due to adequate documentation.
Alfred "Teen" Blackburn (April 26, 1842 – March 8, 1951) was one of the last surviving American slaves with a clear recollection of slavery as an adult. He was known throughout Yadkin County, North Carolina for his strength, size, and longevity. [1]