Dan Ceppa -> TIM RICHARDSON wrote:
 ->> On 04 May 08  19:20:00, TIM RICHARDSON got back to EARL CROASMUN
 ->> Re: In case you missed the co

 ->> There is a story I saw out on the web about some slave owner in Iowa
 ->> (I think) who supposedly didn't tell their slaves they had been
 ->> freed.

 ->> I suspect Ceppa's `not freed until 1902' has more `urban legend' than
 ->> fact to it.

 DC> Perhaps, but there are more then enough chances that similar did
 DC> not occur for some time after the war was over.

 TR>> I have a hard time picturing any slaves that didn't `know' slavery had
 TR>> ended long prior to `1902'.


 TR>> After all.........`everybody' had to know the Civil War was going on
 TR>> (hell...it was in all the papers!).

 DC> And, just how many blacks were able to read at the end of the Civil War?

AS a percentage of total numbers based on race I would be surprised if it
was much higher than southern whites.

Perhaps someone will look up the numbers.

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