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...quilt depicts Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), the escaped slave who became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and earned the title of "the Moses of her people." It is not so well known that she was also one of the more than 400,000 Negroes who took part one way or another in the Civil War. Commanding some 300 Union troops, she in 1863 led a highly successful and much-imitated foray into Confederate territory, freeing almost 800 slaves, driving the enemy inland, and inflicting losses estimated in the millions. An official dispatch at the time stated...
...postscript to point out that all the work of grading and laying out the grounds around the Cambridge Public Library was done by Negroes. This is the same Higginson who was graduated from Harvard in 1841 and from 1862 to 1864 was the colonel in command of the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States. Among his extensive literary output was an account of his Civil War experiences and observations, Army Life in a Black Regiment, a magnificent classic that was recently reprinted in paperback; and he was the first to encourage Emily Dickinson, whose poetry...
...Consider Charlie Smith, who last week celebrated what he calculated to be his 125th birthday in Bartow, Fla. A spry ex-slave, Charlie runs a small cold-drink and candy shop and thrives on raw sausages, crackers, 7UP, and telling people how old he is. Naturally, he has his secrets of longevity: "I never drink no green [plain] milk-only chocolate. I don't eat no table food-cooked stuff is not too good...
...loyalty to his country, Smith arbitrarily celebrates his birthday on the Fourth of July. He says he was born in Liberia in 1842, the son of one Lindy Watkins. When he was only twelve, he was lured on board a slave ship commanded by a Captain Legree and taken to the U.S. He was sold, assumed his owner's name and was freed after the Civil War. Some of his story seems to check out: Watkins was a common name in Liberia in the 1840s, and slave-ship records actually list two slave-ship captains named Legree. Charlie also...
...inability to document claims of extreme age helps establish a useful outer limit for doctors who deal with the aged-and in no way detracts from the charm of such local characters as Charlie Smith and Sylvester Magee, another former slave from Hattiesburg, Miss., who claimed to be celebrating his 126th birthday last May 29. Magee's eyes are bright and alert, his face marvelously expressive, and until four years ago he was still working in the cotton fields. His recollections of life as a slave and of his later service in the Union Army are remarkably detailed...