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'''Peter Mills''' (October 26, 1861 – September 22, 1972) was the last known surviving American man born into legal slavery: he died in 1972 aged 110.<ref>{{cite news |title = Local voices: When did American slavery really end? |last = Smith |first = Michael |work = The Fayetteville Observer |date = 16 July 2021 |url = https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2021/07/16/michael-smith-op-ed-when-american-slavery-really-ended/7976431002/ |access-date = 5 March 2022}}</ref>
Mills was born in [[Prince George's County, Maryland]] on October 26, 1861. After the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], he worked on his father's farm every day during the week before leaving to work in [[Baltimore]] and [[Washington, DC]] where he dug [[sewerage|sewers]], was a bricklayer and plasterer and played baseball in his spare time. Mills eventually moved to Pittsburgh after first visiting in 1881. Mills died after a pedestrian accident in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] on September 22, 1972. He outlived his five wives.<ref>''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 23 Sep 1972, Sat., p. 5</ref><ref>"Aged Negro 110, Ex-Slave Died Free," ''The Indiana Gazette'' (Indiana, Pennsylvania), 25 Sep 1972, Mon, Page 19</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JIs0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=fqEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2654,7024410&hl=en|access-date=2021-05-02|website=[[Montreal Gazette]]|via=Google News}}</ref>
==See also==
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