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Dan Smith, Believed to Have Been Last Living Person Born to Enslaved Parent, Laid to Rest in DC

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Washington DCOctober 29, 2022 6:42 pm

Dan Smith, Believed to Have Been Last Living Person Born to Enslaved Parent, Laid to Rest in DC

A reminder that slavery is a not-so-distant part of our history: Daniel Smith Sr. was born in 1932 to a 70-year-old father who had been in bondage in Virginia. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

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