Freedom and Citizenship
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Freedom and Citizenship: Selected Lectures and Addresses of Hon. John Mercer Langston, LL.; U. S. Minister Resident at Haiti John Mercer Langston, one of the most remarkable colored men of his period, for he stands with the two foremost, Douglass and Bruce, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, December 14th, 1829. This date he gets from his half-sister. His father was Ralph Quarles, Esq., and his mother plain Jane Langston, of African and Indian descent, his father´s favorite slave. When Mr. Quarles died he emancipated all his slaves by will, and sent them to Ohio. Of the lad Langston, who was among them, Col. William D. Gooch, a former friend of his father´s, was appointed guardian by the judges of the Ross county court. By Mr. Gooch and his family he was always treated as a son. Miss Virginia Gooch, a young lady whom he distinctly remembers, taught him in the New Testament, and he never dreamed that he did not belong to them by birth. When he was between eight and ten years of age, Colonel. Gooch took it into his head to emigrate to Missouri, a slave State. The family, with their furniture, were all packed on board a boat on the Chillicothe canal, when suddenly the sheriff, at the instance of his half-brother, William Langston, appeared with a process charging an attempt to kidnap the boy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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