Elias Hill (Q490929)
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HC-PER-37077
- HC-PER-37077
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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Elias Hill
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HC-PER-37077
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Statements
Slave
Educator
Black Nationalist
Organization Founder / Official
Born Enslaved. Free before 13th Amendment. Though he was afflicted by disease (likely polio) as a child, Hill became an educator and minister who testified to Congress in 1871 about members of the KKK who had attacked him. Migrated to Liberia in 1871.