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]

John Hannibal White

White was enslaved.[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]

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ West, Jerry Lee (January 2002). The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865–1877. ISBN 9780786412587.
  4. ^ "Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature". Smithsonian Institution.


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