Daniel Smith, Army veteran and one of the last children of enslaved Americans, dies at 90
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 21, 2022
Daniel Smith at his home in Washington, D.C., in July 2020. Smith, who was 90 when he died Oct. 19, 2022, in Washington, was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, and a rare direct link to slavery in the United States. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
Growing up in the 1930s, Daniel R. Smith would listen to stories from his father, as young boys often do. He was not supposed to hear these stories — they were meant for his older siblings, not for a child as young as . . .
