Anderson, Robert Ball, (1843-1930) From Slavery to Affluence: Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09935 Author/Creator: Anderson, Robert Ball, (1843-1930) Place Written: Hemingford, Nebraska Type: Book Date: 1927 Pagination: 1 v. : 59 p. ; Order a Copy
One book entitled "From Slavery to Affluence: Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave" written by Robert Ball Anderson dated 1927. Recounts Anderson's life as an enslaved person. In 1864, Anderson heard that a Union recruiting officer was nearby the Kentucky plantation where he was enslaved. He decided to escape and recounts, "I went to my old master and talked it over with him. At first he was angry, then he told me I would have to decide for myself what I wanted to do, and that if I wanted to go, for me to go. He seemed to sense the fact that the slavery of the past was over, and that a new era was opening up for all. We had quite a talk, and parted friends." He would serve in the 125th Colored Infantry (under the name Robert Ball) during the Civil War and would be heavily involved in the GAR throughout his life. He moved west to homestead in Nebraska, becoming the largest African American landowner in the state by 1910.
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