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- Grant, JuliaJulia Dent was born on January 26, 1826, at White Haven Plantation, near St. Louis, Missouri, into a wealthy slaveholding family. Her father, Frederick Dent, was a farmer and her mother, Ellen Bray Dent, the daughter of Methodist missionaries. Julia was the fifth of eight children and the first daughter. She was largely educated at home or in a log cabin school nearby. She preferred the outdoors to study....
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- Grant and Julia DentWhile fighting in the Mexican War, Grant wrote letters to Julia Dent, the daughter of a plantation owner in St. Louis. Julia's father was pro-slavery and disapproved of Grant. When the two married, she inherited slaves, which drew disapproval from Grant's abolitionist father. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
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