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Ben Travis was an enslaved man in the Linton Stephens household who accompanied Vice-President Alexander Stephens to a conference with President Abraham Lincoln in the winter of 1865. Travis carried Stephens' luggage and helped steady him as he walked.
Travis went north in the first year of the Civil War, and relocated to Richmond Virginia. The last heard of Ben Travis was in 1865, when he was the intended recipient of a note written by Alexander Stephens from Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor.
See also: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ahstephens/ben-travis-goes-north/
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