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Lela Mae Holden Walls. 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. [2] [3] [4]
May 16, 2018 · One of the 20th-century slaves was Mae Louise Walls Miller and she didn’t get her freedom until 1963. Her father, Cain Wall, lost his land by signing a contract he couldn’t read that enslaved ...
- Ismail Akwei
Jun 11, 2018 · Nearly five years after the Waterford meeting, however, Mae Louise Walls Miller of Mississippi told Harrell that she didn’t get her freedom until 1963. Miller told her about how she and her mother were raped and beaten when they went to the main house to work. Since that time, Harrell has continued her research and documenting their story.
Apr 22, 2022 · Mae Louise Miller’s Sad Story. One of the 20th-century slaves was Mae Louise Walls Miller and she didn’t get her freedom until 1963. Her father, Cain Wall, lost his land by signing a contract he couldn’t read that enslaved his entire family. Mae Louise Miller was a Hebrew Israelite woman who was kept in modern-day slavery known as peonage ...
Feb 28, 2018 · 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 ...
- Antoinette Harrell
Jan 26, 2023 · Mae Louise Walls Miller didn’t obtain her freedom from slavery until 1961, a mere three years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... Her entire family was forced into labor and not allowed to ...
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Sep 3, 2019 · The Last Slaves. by Jill Richardson. 6 minute read. Mae Louise Walls Miller was a slave in southern Mississippi. One day she met Henriette, a storyteller about slavery, and Mae regaled her with her own story—a story filled with savage beatings, sexual assaults that began at age five, having to work in the fields under the Mississippi Summer ...
