Langston Hughes
Describe Hughes' family history as recorded in the biography, Langston Hughes.
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Hughes had a mixed family history; both great-grandfathers were white, one a Jewish slave trader and the other a Scottish whiskey maker. His mother's grandfather was a white planter who was said to have descended from Frances Quarles, a seventeenth- century British poet.
Langston Hughes