Sleuths trace fate of first black male slave freed by Lincoln

Sunday, July 19, 2015

MINNEAPOLIS -- Researchers believe they found the grave of a man who could be considered the first black male slave freed by Abraham Lincoln, tracking his final resting place to the cemetery of a former Minnesota psychiatric hospital.

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