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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.
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 farm...
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.
- 4 (adopted)
- Wallace Miller
- 2014 (aged 70–71)
- Mae Louise Wall, August 24, 1943, Gillsburg, Mississippi
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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...
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Feb 28, 2018 · Harrell said that after giving a lecture on genealogy and reparations in Amite, La., she met Mae Louise Walls Miller, who actually said these words: “I didn’t get my freedom until 1963.” The...
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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 ...
Mar 17, 2022 · In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Krystin described a People article about Mae Louise Walls Miller, who was enslaved in Mississippi until she escaped in the 1960s. This was the film's inspiration. While the original article is unavailable to read, Collider breaks down what happened to Mae.
