'Old Black Joe,' slave born 1794 who escaped to Pennsylvania, lived to be photographed before he died in 1906
LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — For most of us, living to be 112 years old would be the most remarkable thing about us, if we were that fortunate and rare. Not Joseph Johns, otherwise known as “Old Black Joe.” Johns, born and enslaved in Fauquier County, Virginia, in about 1794 — that’s actually a conservative […]
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