Charles
Langston was
born in Louisa County, Virginia in 1817. He gained his freedom in
1834 and two years later established a school in Chillicothe, Ohio
for African-American children.
Langston was member of the Liberty Party
and the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society
and edited the civil rights journal, Palladium
of Liberty (1842-43). He was also a leader of the National
Organization of the Sons of Temperance.
Appointed principal of the Columbus Colored School in 1856, Langston
continued to be active in the anti-slavery
movement. He was also a conductor on the Underground
Railroad and in 1858 was convicted for breaking the Fugitive
Slave Act.
After the Civil War Langston moved to
Kansas where he became principal of the Quindaro Colored School. Charles
Langston died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1892.
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