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Basil Biggs (1819–1906) was a free African American laborer and veterinarian. He lived near Gettysburg and was reportedly involved with the Underground Railroad. Biggs was born in Carroll County, Maryland in 1819. His mother died when he was four.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nps.gov/gett/forteachers/upload/1%20African%20American%20Bios.pdf )〕 In the 1840s Biggs married Mary Jackson. They had seven children. They moved from Maryland to Gettysburg in 1858. Following the Battle of Gettysburg, Biggs was hired to disinter bodies from temporary cemeteries, place them in coffins, and rebury them. The work started on October 1863 and ended in March 1864. He was paid $1.25 per body and worked with a crew of laborers. Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier, Amos Humiston, was among the disinterred.〔 Biggs used his earnings to purchase a farm in Gettysburg. He started the organization The Sons of Good Will in order to acquire land for black cemeteries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pacivilwartrails.com/stories/tales/basil-biggs )〕 Biggs died on June 6, 1906 and is interred at the Lincoln Cemetery in Gettysburg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paquestforfreedom.com/basil-biggs )〕 Playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith is Biggs' great-great-granddaughter. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basil Biggs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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