Description
Wins Fame Abroad - Colored Man From Kansas is Successful in Europe - Born in Leavenworth of Slave Parents, Owned by a Parkville Planter - Some of His Most Distinguished Work as Sculptor. - - (excerpted from longer article) - - Abraham Lincoln Hanson is another artist to go abroad and achieve distinction. (text omitted) "I was born, Mr. Hanson said, "in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1867. My parents were slaves owned by a planter in Parkville, Missouri. When he released them they moved to Kansas, and owing to their very straitened circumstances, I was put to work on the farm to help eke out a living. The work was very distasteful to me, and I soon received the name of a poor, lazy, 'nigger' on account of my neglect of the tasks set me."Date(s) of Creation
7/1/1900
