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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 the...
Dec 5, 2003 · Sisters: We Were Modern-Day Slaves. By ABC News. December 5, 2003, 8:15 AM. Dec. 20 -- As Mae Miller tells it, she spent her youth in Mississippi as a slave, "picking cotton, pulling corn, picking ...
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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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.
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Apr 22, 2022 · Mae Louise Miller was a Hebrew Israelite 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. They were not permitted to leave the land and the owners subjected them to beatings and rape.
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