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Rev. Daniel Jackson Sanders

March 10, 2023

Rev. Daniel Sanders c. 1890. Image courtesy of the Charlotte Mecklenberg Library.

Daniel Jackson Sanders, of Winnsboro, South Carolina, was a devout Presbyterian, a champion for education, and dedicated to the advancement of his race. His story of unlikely success began with birth on February 15th, 1847, into slavery. He was owned by the same man as his mother, Thomas Hall, a methodist minister. Upon Hall’...

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