Dilsia (slave) facts for kids

Dilsia was a woman enslaved by future President William Henry Harrison. According to civil rights activist Walter Francis White's family oral history, Harrison had six children with Dilsia.

Descendants

Walter Francis White's oral history asserts when Harrison decided to run for president, he concluded that it would not be politically advantageous for him to have the children in his home. Accordingly, Harrison gave four of Dilsia's children to his brother; his brother, in turn, sold the children to Joseph Poythress, one of the earliest white settlers of LaGrange, Georgia.

Marie Harrison was a daughter of Dilsia, and was allegedly fathered by William Henry Harrison. Marie Harrison was the grandmother of Walter Francis White.