At the outbreak of World War I, U.S. Diplomat William H. Hunt was serving as the U.S. Consul in St. Etienne, France. Hunt was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. He claimed to have been born on June 29, 1869, so he could get into school at the age of twenty-six posing as a […]

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