John Hannibal White

Biography

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. White was enslaved. During the Civil War he would read updates to members of his community in York County, South Carolina. A photograph of him was part of a composite image of African American "Radical Republican" members of the South Carolina Legislature.

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