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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]
- 4 (adopted)
- Wallace Miller
- 2014 (aged 70–71)
- Mae Louise Wall, August 24, 1943, Gillsburg, Mississippi
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. ... Miller would get sent up to the landowner's house on the farm where her ...
Dec 5, 2003 · 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 peas, picking butter beans, picking string beans ...
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.
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 ...
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Nov 9, 2007 · She lived as a slave until she was 18 years old. Tonight, Miller comes to Crosswalk Community Church in Norge in James City County to tell her story. The free public event is at 7 p.m. and ...
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