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John Mercer Langston
(1829—1897)
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(b. 14 December 1829; d. 15 November 1897), an African American political leader, congressman, and intellectual.
Born in Virginia to a wealthy white planter and a slave mother, John Mercer ...
From: Langston, John Mercer in Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass »
