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Ben Montgomery
1819–1877
United States
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Benjamin Thornton Montgomery (c. 1819–1877) was an American inventor, landowner, and freedman in Mississippi. He learned to read and write and became manager of supply and shipping for Joseph Emory Davis at Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend.
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