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That\u2019s my father sitting on his father\u2019s lap. He\u2019s about two. That\u2019s Benjamin. I\u2019m named after him. And his Dad\u2019s name is Lewis. That\u2019s my grandfather. Next to him is Dad\u2019s oldest brother, Huey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Jackson, the second one in the picture, was born into slavery. And he was brought from the South to Minnesota by an ex-Union soldier as a young kid, say of 10 or 11, and raised by the soldier\u2019s family in Minnesota. I feel that maybe he was an Abolitionist, I don\u2019t know for sure. I feel that was the case, to bring a little boy all the way to Minnesota and raise him.  He died when I was about five or so. I remember him. I was at his funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father\u2019s family were brought to Roslyn by the Northern Pacific Railroad to break the strike in the mines. The Northern Pacific Railroad owned those mines. And they, the Northern Pacific, conscripted them from all over the country. They settled them in Ronald to keep down the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many, not all, but many of the blacks who came to the NW came first to Ronald, Roslyn, and Cle Elum and spread out from there to Seattle, Tacoma, and Yakima. This was the basis of the Black Migration in the Northwest.  But after Lewis moved across the mountains he got sick\u2026 He then resettled in Sunnyside for his health.  He got the Black Lung. He didn\u2019t last too long in Sunnyside, but that\u2019s how he homesteaded there.  He\u2019s buried in one of them hills. I don\u2019t know which one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text from an interview with Mr. Benjamin \u201cBennie\u201d Sanders, winter 1997, by Jim Bodeen and Gilbert Chandler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coal miner\u2019s lamp provided by Elizabeth Herres Miller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lamp belonged to her aunt\u2019s father, a miner who immigrated from Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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