File:Uncle Jim - Benjamin Ogle Tayloe slave - age 94 - 1915.jpg
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English: "Uncle" Jim Lawson, an African American former slave, age 94, photographed in 1915 by Essie Collins Matthews. He was born into slavery in Ward County, Maryland, in about 1821. His parents were slaves owned by en:Benjamin Ogle Tayloe. About 1845, he was taken by Mr. Tayloe to Tayloe's cotton plantation ("Windsor"), located between Uniontown and Selma, Alabama. Freed after the American Civil War, he continued to work for Tayloe's descendent, Judge William Henry Tayloe. |
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| Source | https://books.google.com/books?id=YAfjkQPf7ToC&dq=tayloe%20alabama%20slaves%20-virginia&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false Matthews, Essie Collins. "Chapter 3: Windsor Plantation." Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After. Columbus, Ohio: The Champlin Press, 1915, p. 42. |
| Author | Essie Collins Matthews |
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