By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare With all the talk about reparations for the descendants of American slaves currently going on around the country, anti-reparation people would have you believe that slavery was so long ago, it wasn’t. The last surviving person born a slave in the antebellum south was a man named, John Magee. Magee was born in North Carolina in 1841. Magee’s parents Jeanette and Ephraim were slaves on the J.J. Shanks plantation. Magee told people that before the Civil War he was sold to a plantation owner by the name of Hugh Magee, at a slave market in Enterprise, Mississippi. Some say that Magee was later sold to Victory Steen, who ran a slave plantation near Florence, Mississippi. Magee … Continue reading AMERICA’S LAST SLAVE DIED IN 1971