Biography
Charles Henry Langston, a free Black abolitionist and educator (and grandfather of the poet Langston Hughes), was one of the leaders of the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue, in which black and white townspeople freed the recaptured freedom seeker John Price. Tried in Cleveland and convicted under the Fugitive Slave Act, he delivered a famous address to the court on why he could not respect a law that denied his people justice; he was jailed and fined.
