I appreciate the note. It touched on some issues I hadn’t given thought to before. The ‘grandfathered in issue’ was one.
After reading your comments, I tried to Google ‘last known slave in the United States’. I ran into this article.
It’s an interesting article, if you’re going to believe all of it. I certainly can’t vouch for the veracity.
One interesting aspect, was the possible inception of ‘backsliding’, a religious term meant to reference a Christian who had slid back into sin. This article puts a new slant on that.
I had thought that grandfathered in people might easily live until the 1900s, only 35 years after new laws shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation.
At any rate, check this out. You may find it interesting.
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/thestaff/emeritus/hunter.html
The site, church, - the whole thing is a parody, but you have to look twice. Someone put an awful lot of work into this...
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