Last Person to Receive Civil War-Era Pension Dies
Wild.<p>Especially now, it's important to remind ourselves that American slavery isn't a thing of the the distant past - there are old people alive today whose fathers literally fought in the war to keep slavery legal. And the last former slave died in 1971 [1], which means there are probably tons of middle-aged people going about their lives who personally knew and had conversations with ex-slaves.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Magee" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Magee</a>