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[John Henry Hector]
Handsome Portrait of "The Black Knight of the Temperance Movement" and His Family, 1890
Albumen print
4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
with Hector's identification recto and other notations verso.
with Hector's identification recto and other notations verso.
$ 1,000.00
A handsome portrait of John Henry Hector, a reverend and lecturer called 'The Black Knight' of the temperance movement. He is shown with his wife Eliza and son Norman, and...
A handsome portrait of John Henry Hector, a reverend and lecturer called "The Black Knight" of the temperance movement. He is shown with his wife Eliza and son Norman, and on the verso there is a note date of 1890 and a note of the location where Hector had lectured, "M.E. Church Hartford."
John Henry Hector was born free in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on March 17, 1845. His parents were said to have been previously enslaved in Virginia and managed to escape a life of servitude by taking the well-known Underground Railroad to Canada. He emigrated to the United States as a young man and served in the Civil War with the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Before the war, he could neither read nor write but he eventually became an A.M.E. minister. By 1889 he was a prominent temperance advocate on the lecture circuit, billed as "the Black Knight," and he toured England in 1896. He settled in York, PA by 1894, where he resided for the remainder of his life.
John Henry Hector was born free in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on March 17, 1845. His parents were said to have been previously enslaved in Virginia and managed to escape a life of servitude by taking the well-known Underground Railroad to Canada. He emigrated to the United States as a young man and served in the Civil War with the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Before the war, he could neither read nor write but he eventually became an A.M.E. minister. By 1889 he was a prominent temperance advocate on the lecture circuit, billed as "the Black Knight," and he toured England in 1896. He settled in York, PA by 1894, where he resided for the remainder of his life.