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Additional authors

1. American Publishing Company (Hartford, Conn.), publisher.

Description

1. x, 11-534 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative title

1. From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol
2. The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion

Subject

1. African American abolitionists > Biography
2. African Americans > Politics and government
3. Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897
4. African American politicians > Biography
5. Black author

Call number

1. Sc Rare B-Langston (Langston, J. M. From the Virginia plantation...)

Note

1. "Copyright 1894 by John Mercer Langston (All rights reserved)"--verso of title page.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897.

Title

1. From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol, or, The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion / John Mercer Langston ; illustrated.

Imprint

1. Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company, 1894.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 5675

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare B-Langston (copy 2) (accession no. B526613) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
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Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. American Publishing Company (Hartford, Conn.), publisher.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 12003280

Research call number

1. Sc Rare B-Langston (Langston, J. M. From the Virginia plantation...)