Please NO MOOR MYTHS...This John Hanson was a Manumitted SLAVE not - TopicsExpress



          

Please NO MOOR MYTHS...This John Hanson was a Manumitted SLAVE not a president EVER. He was a Senator in Bassa County Liberia in the mid 1800s...He named himself after the White Irishman who was the sixth President of the USA and first president under the Articles of Confederation... There were NO Moorish or Black Presidents in the USA.... Here are the stats on the photo: TITLE: [John Hanson, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, wearing glasses, seated at desk] CALL NUMBER: DAG no. 1003 Original served by appointment only. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-6824 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ6-1924 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1856 and 1860] NOTES: Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Written on back of plate: John Hanson, Senator from Bassa Co. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia. Exhibited: A durable memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American daguerreotypist. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. SUBJECTS: Hanson, John, Liberian senator. FORMAT: Portrait photographs 1850-1860. Daguerreotypes 1850-1860. PART OF: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) American Colonization Society. Records, REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g06824 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06824 (b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3d01924 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d01924 CARD #: 2004664314
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:20:56 +0000

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