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Hannah Cole Pope (1829 – 1910)

Photo courtesy of Georgetown University Press
by Georgetown African American Historic Landmark Project|Published May 29, 2018

What president’s wife owned Hannah Cole and sold her to one Congressman Colonel Carter, owner of Alfred Pope, so she could live with him as husband and wife? They were later manumitted.

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