{"id":3398,"date":"2010-06-08T19:19:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jackson-john-glover\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:08:16","slug":"jackson-john-glover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jackson-john-glover\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, John Glover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Glover <\/strong><strong>J<\/strong><strong>ackson <\/strong><strong>(1907-1993) <\/strong>was a renowned Afro-American historian <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/John-Glover-Jackson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28171\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/John-Glover-Jackson-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"John Glover Jackson\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/John-Glover-Jackson-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/John-Glover-Jackson.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>with a number of major books to his credit, invariably with a strong Afro-centric theme. He was also a devout atheist, a fact that no doubt coloured his many essays on comparative religion. In his 1939 paper, <em>E<\/em><em>thiopia and the <\/em><em>O<\/em><em>rigin of <\/em><em>C<\/em><em>ivilisation<\/em><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <em>, <\/em>he touches on the subject of Atlantis and clearly accepted the reality of its existence. Jackson quotes <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/proclus-lycaeus\/\">Proclus Lycaeus<\/a> who in turn cited <em>T<\/em><em>he <\/em><em>E<\/em><em>thiopian <\/em><em>H<\/em><em>istory <\/em>of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/marcellus\/\">Marcellus<\/a> as evidence that Atlantis was connected with the history of ancient Ethiopia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(<\/span><\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/EthiopiaAndTheOriginOfCivilization (link broken Jan 2019)<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200215123411\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3643\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200215123411\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3643\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Glover Jackson (1907-1993) was a renowned Afro-American historian with a number of major books to his credit, invariably with a strong Afro-centric theme. He was also a devout atheist, a fact that no doubt coloured his many essays on comparative religion. In his 1939 paper, Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilisation(a) , he touches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1247,1248,1246,973],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afro-centrism","tag-ethiopia","tag-john-glover-jackson","tag-proclus-lycaeus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65033,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/65033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}