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 was once in bondage in Virginia.
Daniel Smith Sr. was laid to rest Saturday in the District. You might not know his name, but Smith's life is linked to the most painful part of our nation's history. It's believed that he was the last living person born to a parent who had been enslaved.He was born in 1932 — 67 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, which statutorily ended slavery when his father, Abram Smith, was a young child.
Neumann Smith would hear those stories, too, of whipping posts, hanging trees and the cruelty of those times. One was a story of an enslaved man accused by his enslaver of telling a lie. "In the middle of winter, and it's freezing, and made him put his tongue on a metal wheel on a wagon," Neumann Smith said."It froze, and when he pulled it off, he pulled off half his tongue."
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