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Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston (born Mary Sampson Patterson; c. 1835 – 1915) was an American abolitionist, the first African-American woman to attend Oberlin College, and wife of notable abolitionists Lewis Sheridan Leary and Charles Henry Langston.
Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, grandmother of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes Papers, Harold Ober Associates Inc. via Beinecke Library, Yale University.
*Mary Patterson Leary Langston's birth is celebrated on this date in 1835. She was a Black educator and abolitionist . Born Mary Sampson Patterson in North Carolina, she was the daughter of a formerly enslaved man who highly valued education; for this reason, he brought his family to Oberlin, Ohio, to secure a college education for his children.
28 de abr. de 2022 · Daughter of James Patterson and Joanna Simpson Wife of Sheridan Lewis Leary; Lewis Sheridan Leary and Charles Henry Langston Mother of Louise Leary; Loisa Leary; Caroline Mercer Hughes and Nathaniel Turner Langston
mother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, who regaled Hughes with stories of his rebellious, abolitionist ancestors, and though her stories skirted the African American vernacular tradition that later informed so much of Hughes's work, these exciting narratives still provided Hughes with a sense of
Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston was an American abolitionist, the first Black woman to attend Oberlin College, and wife of notable abolitionists Lewis Sheridan Leary and Charles Henry Langston. She was also the grandmother of Langston Hughes and raised him for part of his childhood, inspiring his future work.
Hughes's grandmother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, was prominent in the African American community in Lawrence. Her first husband had died at Harper's Ferry fighting with John Brown; her second husband, Lanston Hughes's grandfather, was a prominent Kansas politician during Reconstruction.
