LANGSTON, JOHN MERCER. From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital. Frontispiece and additional plates. Thick large 8vo, rebound in modern cloth with red morocco label. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894 E200/300 FIRST EDITION of

LANGSTON, JOHN MERCER. From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital. Frontispiece and additional plates. Thick large 8vo, rebound in modern cloth with red morocco label. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1894 E200/300 FIRST EDITION of Langston's third person autobiography, "the first Negro elected from Virginia to the U.S. House of Representatives recalls his youth in Virginia, his schooling in Cincinnati, and education at Oberlin, his work as a lawyer in Ohio his duties as Minister to Haiti, his teaching experiences at Howard . " and his political career. Schomburg Collection, CBD. rare, (under title); Blockson Collection, the 1973 reprint.