Papers of John Mercer Langston [manuscript] 1853-98.

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Papers of John Mercer Langston [manuscript] 1853-98.

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Educator, lawyer, diplomat. Correspondence, speeches, drafts of writings, receipts, estate papers, banking papers, handbills, passports, minutes, scrapbook, and newspaper clippings. Concerns Slavery in the U.S., the abolition movement, Reconstruction, the U.S. War Dept., the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Howard University, Washington, D.C., American relations with Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Persons mentioned are: Paul H. Bracy, J.R. Galbraith, Oliver Otis Howard, John Ogden, O.S.B. Wall, John L. Waller, and Caroline M. Walls Langston.

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