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Elijah B. Odom
1859–1924
United States
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Biography
Elijah B. Odom (10 October 1859 – 24 February 1924) was an American physician and businessperson from Hernando, Mississippi. He was born into slavery in 1859. Despite the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, his descendants believe he was still kept a slave as a child, forced to pick berries by his owner.
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