Abramab Smith News Today

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, the son of a man born enslaved during the Civil War and the last survivor of five siblings, has passed away.

Daniel Smith, an Army veteran who was 90 when he died at a hospital in Washington, D.C., was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, and a rare direct link to slavery in the United States.

Daniel R. Smith, an activist and the son of a man born into slavery, died on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., at the age of 90. Smith, who was born when his father Abram “A.B.” Smith was 70, was one of the last remaining children of slaves. His father was enslaved during the Civil War as…

He grew up hearing stories from his father, who was born into bondage during the Civil War. Decades later, he marched for civil rights in Washington and Selma.