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Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.
May 16, 2018 · Mae Louise Walls Miller was one of the last slaves in the US who did not know slavery had ended until 1963. She and her family were enslaved by a plantation owner in Louisiana for over a century and suffered beatings, rapes and debt.
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Feb 28, 2018 · Harrell described the case of Mae Louise Walls Miller, who didn't get her freedom until 1963, when she was about 14. As a child, Miller would get sent up to the landowner's house on...
Jun 11, 2018 · Mae Louise Walls Miller of Mississippi was one of the last people to leave Waterford Plantation in Killona, Louisiana, in 1963. She told genealogist Antoinette Harrell about the rape and beating she and her mother endured there.
Dec 5, 2003 · The Millers' story came to light recently when Mae Miller walked into a workshop on the issue of slave reparations run by Antoinette Harrell-Miller, a genealogist.
Feb 28, 2018 · Mae Louise Walls Miller was one of the last people in the US to be freed from slavery in 1963. She shared her harrowing story with historian Antoinette Harrell, who uncovered cases of peonage in the South.
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Jan 3, 2020 · Six months after that meeting, I was giving a lecture on genealogy and reparations in Amite, Louisiana, when I met Mae Louise Walls Miller. Mae walked in after the lecture was over, demanding to speak with me. She walked up, looked me in the eye, and stated, “I didn’t get my freedom until 1963.”
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