Freedom and Citizenship: Selected Lectures and Addresses of Hon. John Mercer Langston, LL.D., U.S. Minister Resident at Haiti
Washington, D.C. Rufus H. Darby, 1883.
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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 286pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt. Corners a bit bumped, and a little very light spotting on the boards, near fine. Langston was born a slave, emancipated upon the death of his plantation-owner father, and later graduated from Oberlin College. He served as Minister Resident in Haiti and was for a time president of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute before being voted into the House of Representatives as the first black man to represent Virginia. The author Langston Hughes was named in his honor. A very scarce title, especially in nice condition.
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