Historical Photograph: Hastings Gantt

Hastings Gantt

Historical Photograph: Hastings Gantt

1907

Historical Photograph

The University of North Carolina Special Collections Library provides a 1907 historical photo of Hastings Gantt - a formerly enslaved man turned businessman and landowner from Beaufort, South Carolina - who donated land for the establishment of the Penn School, one of the country's first schools for newly freed people. In the full body photo, Gantt can be seen standing with a cane with large oak trees in the background.

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The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina (Contributor: Penn Center)

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