John Mercer Langston
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Born January 1, 1829
Died January 1, 1897 (68 years old)
Louisa County, United States
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From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol, or, The first and only Negro representative in Congress from the Old Dominion
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The Exodus
Leon Uris, Charles R. Swindoll, John Mercer Langston, E. E. Cleveland, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, William Windom, Richard Green Moulton
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The other phase of reconstruction
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Langston, an African American congressman from Virginia, looks for a manner in which to bring the separate classes of the South -- former slave owners, freed slaves, poor whites, etc. -- together to live in peace in the new post-Civil War national order. He opts for enforcement of new constitutional provisions regarding African Americans but perhaps with some concessions to the old Southern ruling class to enlist their support in rebuilding the South and the Union.