Tag: Univeraity of Southern Mississippi
Professor Seeks to Solve the Mystery of the Man Who Claimed to Be the Last Surviving Slave
Sylvester Magee died in Columbia, Mississippi, in 1971. He claimed he was born a slave in 1841 and after securing his freedom was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. If true, the 130-year-old Sylvester Magee was not only the last surviving American slave, he was the last living Civil War veteran.
