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Charity Wiggins, a slave on a Georgia plantation, was 48 in May 1849, when she gave birth to a baby boy. The child, whom she named Thomas, was born blind, and she feared that their owner would deem him a useless burden — with potentially dire consequences.
Wiggins was born Thomas Greene [2] on the Wiley Edward Jones Plantation in Harris County, Georgia. Blind at birth, he was sold in 1850 along with his enslaved parents, Charity and Domingo "Mingo" Wiggins, to a Columbus, Georgia lawyer, General James Neil Bethune. [3] Bethune was "the first [newspaper] editor in the south to openly advocate ...
Aug 4, 2023 · This “guardianship” from various members of the Bethune family, first the general, then his son, then his wife, remained until Wiggins death in 1908, though his birth mother tried and failed multiple times to release her son.
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Mar 14, 2021 · Charity Wiggins, a slave on a Georgia plantation, was 48 in May 1849 when she gave birth to a baby boy. The child, whom she named Thomas, was born blind, and she feared that their owner would deem him a useless burden — with potentially dire consequences.
Feb 13, 2008 · Thomas Greene Wiggins was born May 25, 1849 to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, slaves on a Georgia plantation. He was blind and autistic but a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. In 1850 Tom, his parents, and two brothers were sold to James Neil Bethune, a lawyer and newspaper editor in Columbus, Georgia. Young Tom was fascinated by music and ...
May 31, 2018 · The most commonly accepted story of this man is that he was the twenty-first child of Mingo and Charity Wiggins, farm laborers owned as human property by Mr. Wiley Jones, a bankrupted cotton planter from Harris County.
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• His mother Charity was 48 years old when she gave birth to Tom; she was a house slave for a one Wiley Jones, and was married to a field hand, Domingo (Mingo) Wiggins. • Charity had given birth between 12 and 21 children over the years and when Tom was born, he was one of three or four of her offspring sll living with her on the plantaon.
