Special to the NNPA from The Westside Gazette Benjamin Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudoun County, Va. He was sold to Joseph E. Davis, a Mississippi planter. Davis was the older brother of Jefferson Davis, who would later serve as the President of the Confederate States of America. After a period of […]
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