“Moorish by Blood, Liberia by Record” — Ten Presidents Infographic Forensics
TL;DR: Viral infographic claims ten Moorish men were the real first U.S. presidents (1781–1801) and their identities were reassigned to Liberian presidential records in the 1800s. Refuted: Confederation-era presiding officers were documented white Anglo-American delegates with European names; Liberia’s first presidency begins 1848 — decades after the Confederation period; the chart renames eight historical Confederation presidents into fabricated Arabic names, then ordinal-maps them onto real Liberian presidents (Roberts → Benson → Warner…). Kernel of truth: John Hanson was first full-term president under the Articles of Confederation — not the modern presidency; a different Black John Hanson was a Liberian senator (misused in older memes). Portraits: AI-style turbans — not period likenesses. No primary archive supports “Moorish by blood, Liberia by record.”
Status: Open — meme archived; validation complete; provenance hunt for graphic author open. Date: 2026-06-11
Guide
| Section | Content |
| §1 | Infographic claims (artifact) |
| §2 | Validation matrix |
| §3 | Real Confederation presidents vs fake list |
| §4 | Liberia chronology vs “reassignment” |
| §5 | John Hanson — two men, one meme |
| §6 | Forensic tells (AI, anachronism) |
| §7 | Relation to repo Moor lanes |
1. Infographic claims (artifact)
Title: THE FIRST 10 PRESIDENTS THEY NEVER TAUGHT YOU ABOUT: MOORISH BY BLOOD, LIBERIA BY RECORD.
Taglines: “HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT • ERASED FROM AMERICAN HISTORY • RECORDED IN LIBERIA”; “The pen of the conqueror rewrites the name of the conquered.”
Thesis: A line of Moorish scholar-statesmen were the first presidents of the United States; identities later transferred into Liberian historical records in the 1800s.
Study copy: moorish-ten-presidents-liberia-record-investigation.png
| # | Meme name | Meme U.S. dates | “Recorded in Liberia as” |
| 1 | John Hanson | 1781–1783 | John Hanson (Politician) |
| 2 | Abdullah El | 1783–1785 | Joseph J. Roberts (1st Pres.) |
| 3 | Benjamin Ashur | 1785–1787 | Stephen A. Benson (2nd) |
| 4 | Thomas El-Farraqan | 1787–1789 | Daniel B. Warner (3rd) |
| 5 | Khalifah Zayid | 1789–1791 | James S. Payne (4th) |
| 6 | Nat Turner El | 1791–1793 | Edward J. Roye (5th) |
| 7 | Malik Amin | 1793–1795 | James K. Smith (6th) |
| 8 | Salahuddin Ali | 1795–1797 | Joseph J. Roberts (2nd term) |
| 9 | Harun Ar-Rahman | 1797–1799 | Anthony W. Gardiner (9th) |
| 10 | Yusuf Khalif | 1799–1801 | Alfred F. Russell (10th) |
2. Validation matrix
| # | Claim | Status | Evidence |
| 1 | Ten Moorish men were first U.S. presidents | Refuted | President of the Confederation Congress — presiding officers were Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts delegates with documented European names; no Moorish identity in primary rolls |
| 2 | Dates 1781–1801 cover “real” pre-Washington presidency | Misleading | Articles presidency is Congress moderator, not Article II executive; Constitution 1789 installs George Washington as first U.S. President — House Office of the Historian |
| 3 | Identities reassigned to Liberia in the 1800s | Refuted | Liberia independent 1847; Joseph Jenkins Roberts first president 3 Jan 1848 — LOC Liberia history; Americo-Liberian presidents have documented Virginia/North Carolina/Caribbean manumission and ACS emigration biographies — not secret U.S. presidents |
| 4 | Ordinal map (meme #2 = Roberts, #3 = Benson…) proves transfer | Refuted | Pattern is post-hoc: take 1st–10th Liberian presidents (with repeat Roberts/Payne terms) and paste onto invented Moorish names; no archival “reassignment” event |
| 5 | John Hanson = Moorish first president | Refuted | White John Hanson (1715–1783), Maryland planter — Constitution Facts; PolitiFact |
| 6 | Abdullah El, Benjamin Ashur, etc. | Refuted | No appearance in Continental/Confederation journals, Maryland gazettes, or peer-reviewed history |
| 7 | Nat Turner El president 1791–1793 | Refuted | Nat Turner born 2 Oct 1800 — Britannica; rebellion 1831; not born during alleged term |
| 8 | George Washington was not first president | Refuted (modern office) | First Article II president 1789–1797 — universal record |
| 9 | “Hidden in plain sight” / scrubbed Moorish blood | Not validated | No NARA, LoC, or Liberian National Archives transfer dossier; genre matches Moorish Science Temple / sovereign-citizen historiography |
| 10 | Portraits = historical likenesses | Refuted / AI-likely | Turbans + uniform grey-beard style + cabinet-card frame around non-photographic faces; daguerreotype only from 1830s — cannot depict 1781 sitters |
| 11 | Liberia John Hanson proves meme | Misread | Black John Hanson (c.1791–1860) — Liberian senator from 1827 emigration — BlackPast; USAToday fact-check — not Confederation president |
| 12 | Barack Obama first Black U.S. president (modern) | Validated | 2009 — after meme’s false Hanson claim |
Overall verdict: Infographic is synthetic history — one real confusion (Hanson + Confederation “presidents before Washington”) weaponized into a Liberian ordinal paste.
3. Real Confederation presidents (1781–1789)
Under the Articles of Confederation, the President of the United States in Congress Assembled served as neutral chair of Congress — not an independent executive (Legal Clarity summary).
First full one-year term: John Hanson (Maryland), 5 Nov 1781 – 4 Nov 1782.
Subsequent Confederation presidents (documented):
| President | Term (approx.) |
| Elias Boudinot | 1782–1783 |
| Thomas Mifflin | 1783–1784 |
| Richard Henry Lee | 1784–1785 |
| John Hancock (elected; ill) / Nathaniel Gorham | 1785–1786 |
| Nathaniel Gorham | 1786–1787 |
| Arthur St. Clair | 1787–1788 |
| Cyrus Griffin | 1788–1789 |
Count: Eight one-year presidencies under Articles — not ten Moorish names. Meme extends to 1801 past Confederation’s 1789 supersession by the Constitution.
None of the meme’s Arabic-renamed figures appear in this list.
4. Liberia chronology — why “reassignment” fails
| Date | Event |
| 1817 | American Colonization Society founded |
| 1820s | First ACS emigrants to Liberia |
| 1847 | Liberian independence declared |
| 3 Jan 1848 | Joseph Jenkins Roberts sworn first president — born 1809 Norfolk, Virginia — Wikipedia |
| 1856–1864 | Stephen Allen Benson (2nd) |
| 1864–1868 | Daniel Bashiel Warner (3rd) |
| … | Payne, Roye, Smith, Roberts 2nd term, Payne 2nd, Gardiner, Russell — Archontology list |
Gap: Meme’s U.S. window ends 1801; Liberia’s presidency begins 1848 — 47 years later, in a different republic founded by ACS settlers. Each Liberian president has independent biography (emigration ship, merchant career, election records) — not a renamed Moorish Confederation officer.
Meme’s trick: Match ordinal number (1st Liberian pres. → 2nd meme slot after Hanson) while skipping that #1 meme Hanson already maps to different Liberian senator Hanson.
5. John Hanson — two men, one confusion
| White John Hanson | Black John Hanson | |
| Life | 1715–1783 | c.1791–1860 |
| Role | First full-term Confederation Congress president | Liberian senator (Grand Bassa) |
| Race | White Maryland delegate | Black — formerly enslaved, ACS emigrant 1827 |
| U.S. president? | No — chair of Congress only | No — never held U.S. office |
| Photo memes | No contemporary photograph exists | 19th-c. daguerreotype mislabeled “first Black U.S. president” |
Dick Gregory popularized Hanson confusion in the 1990s; this infographic extends it into ten Moorish presidents + Liberia.
6. Forensic tells
| Tell | Read |
| AI-style portraits | Ten matching turbans/robes; not sourced to NARA, LoC, or Liberian archives |
| Anachronism | Nat Turner El before Turner’s birth |
| Ordinal paste | Liberian presidents #1–#10 mapped onto invented names |
| Islamic crescent + Africa ankh | Modern Moorish American symbol stack — not 1781 federal iconography |
| “They never taught you” | Conspiracy framing without primary citation |
| Two-year terms 1781–1801 | Fabricated rhythm; Articles prescribed one-year terms |
7. Repo bridge — Moor lanes (do not merge)
| Lane | This meme |
| Delaware “Indian Moor” (Cherokee Moors dossier) | State label for Lenape — documented |
| Maghrebi Moor (slave-trades) | Mediterranean — documented, different geography |
| This infographic | Undocumented — ordinal hoax using real Liberia names |
Europe whitewash read: Meme is inverse whitewash — projects Moorish identity onto already-documented white Confederation chairs while real Americo-Liberian Black governance (1848+) is repurposed as “hidden” U.S. presidency — collapses two real histories into one false pipeline. See europe-white-bloodline-complexion-whitewash §2c on forced splits and category collision.
8. Related investigations
| File | Link |
| Cherokee Moors / Delaware Moor law | cherokee-moors-lenape-delaware-moor-label-investigation.md |
| Europe Moor–Boor split | europe-white-bloodline-complexion-whitewash-investigation.md |
| Slave trades + Moor etymology | slave-trades-and-moor-etymology-investigation.md |
| Benjamin / Americas embed | apotheosis-washington-benjamin-tribe-america-investigation.md |
9. Open questions
- Earliest posting date / author account for this ten-president graphic variant
- Whether meme conflates Moorish Science Temple “Moor” nationality filing with Confederation history
- Liberian archives — any genuine colonial-era “Moor” label for settler groups (separate from this hoax)
Limits
- Refuting the meme does not deny Americo-Liberian history, ACS emigration, or Black republic founding.
- Confederation presidency debates (Hanson vs Washington “first”) are legitimate trivia — this infographic exceeds that into fabricated identities.
- Not legal advice on Moorish nationality filings.
Keywords: #Moorish #Liberia #JohnHanson #ArticlesOfConfederation #MemeForensics #Hoax #JosephRoberts #ParadigmThreatFiles
Last updated: 2026-06-11
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