Peter Mills (October 26, 1861 – September 22, 1972) was the last known surviving American born into legal slavery when he died in 1972 at age 110.

Mills was born in Prince George's County, Maryland on October 26, 1861. After the 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 sewers 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.

Peter Mills (freedman)

See also

List of last survivors of American slavery

References

19th-century American slaves

1861 births

1972 deaths

Longevity claims

People from Pittsburgh

People from Prince George's County, Maryland

American supercentenarians

Men supercentenarians

Accidental deaths in Pennsylvania

20th-century African-American people

Peter Mills (freedman)