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  1. Don’t Be Fooled by Primary Sources | Teaching with the Library

    Apr 1, 2014 · This John Hanson, however, was a senator in Liberia, an African nation founded in the nineteenth century as a home for African American colonists. Another item that might fool …

  2. John Hanson (Liberia) — Wikipedia Republished // WIKI 2

    John Hanson (d. c. 1860) was an African American associated with the American Colonization Society, which sought to relocate black Americans to Liberia. In Liberia, he served as a senator …

  3. John Hanson - Wikipedia

    The claim that Hanson was a forgotten president of the United States was revived on the Internet, sometimes with a new assertion that he was actually a black man; an anachronistic …

  4. African History:- John Hanson (Liberia) – Afro News Wire

    Nov 17, 2020 · John Hanson (died c. 1860) was an African American associated with the American Colonization Society, which sought to relocate freeborn and emancipated black …

  5. Liberia and Freed Slaves, Emancipation of Enslaved African ...

    Images: Philip Coker (Chaplain of the Senate of Liberia), John Hanson (Senator from Bassa County), and James Priest (later Vice President of Liberia), in Liberia, ca. 1837, daguerreotypes …

  6. Was the first president of the United States a Black man ...

    Jan 2, 2012 · The racial mislabeling of John Hanson seems to be a simple case of mistaken identity. Some have confused the colonial-era John Hanson with a politician from the African …

  7. Biography of John Hanson

    John Hanson was an African American associated with the American Colonization Society, which sought to relocate black Americans to Liberia. In Liberia, he served as a senator from Grand …