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Robert Ball Anderson

1843–1930

United States

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Robert Ball Anderson (1 March 1843–30 November 1930) was an early African-American homesteader in Nebraska. Born into slavery, he served in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War and later became one of Nebraska's largest black landowners.

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