Andrew Jackson Beard was born a slave on a plantation in Woodland in Jefferson County, Alabama in 1849. When he was 15, he was emancipated, and he married at the age of 16. He had a number of occupations which included amongst others, farming, working on the railroad and inventing. In 1881, he invented and […]
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