John Hannibal White
John Hannibal White (c. 1828 – July 26, 1878) was a delegate to South Carolina's 1868 Constitutional Convention, a two-term member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, and a state senator in South Carolina. He worked as a blacksmith.[1]
White was enslaved from birth.[2]
During the Civil War he would read updates to members of his community in York County, South Carolina.[3] A photograph of him was part of a composite image of African American "Radical Republican" members of the South Carolina Legislature.[4]
Additional reading
- South Carolina Negro Legislators: a Glorious Success: State and Local Officeholders; Biographies of Negro Representatives, 1868–1902 by Lawrence Chesterfield Bryant, South Carolina State College, 1974
- Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives; Faunt, J.S.R. and Rector, R.E., with Bowden, D.K. Session lists, 1692–1973 by Walter B. Edgar, N. Louise Bailey, University of South Carolina Press, 1974
References
- West, Jerry L. (January 10, 2014). The Bloody South Carolina Election of 1876: Wade Hampton III, the Red Shirt Campaign for Governor and the End of Reconstruction. McFarland. ISBN 9780786459841 – via Google Books.
- Bailey, N. Louise; Morgan, Mary L.; Taylor, Carolyn R. (January 5, 1986). Biographical Directory of the South Carolina Senate, 1776–1985. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9780872494794 – via Google Books.
- West, Jerry Lee (January 2002). The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865–1877. ISBN 9780786412587.
- "Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature". Smithsonian Institution.
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