Marriage and Family
In 1854 Langston married Caroline Matilda Wall, who also graduated from Oberlin College. From North Carolina, she was the emancipated daughter of an enslaved mother and Colonel Stephen Wall, a wealthy white planter. The planter freed his mixed-race daughters Sara and Caroline, and sent them to Ohio to be raised in an affluent Quaker household. An intellectual partner of Langston, Caroline had five children with him, one of whom died in childhood.
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