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Silas Chandler

1838–1919

United States

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Silas Chandler (1838 – September 1919) was an enslaved African American who accompanied his enslavers, Andrew and Benjamin Chandler, referred to as a "manservant" in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was also a carpenter and he helped found and build the first black church in his hometown, West Point, Mississippi.

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