The "colored hero" of Harpers Ferry : John Anthony Copeland and the war against slavery /

On the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, hoping to bring about the eventual end of slavery, radical abolitionist John Brown launched an armed attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Among his troops, there were only five black men, who have largely been treated as little more than 'spear carriers&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lubet, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Copeland, John A. > (John Anthony)
Brown, John, > 1800-1859 > Friends and associates.
Brown, John, > 1800-1859
Copeland, John A. > 1834-1859
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
1800-1899
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Antislavery movements > Ohio > Oberlin > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > Biography.
Abolitionnistes noirs américains > Biographies.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Ohio > Oberlin > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Abolitionnistes > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Abolitionists
African American abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Friendship
Abolitionismus
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) > History > John Brown's Raid, 1859.
Harpers Ferry (Virg.-Occ.) > Histoire > 1859 (Raid de John Brown)
Ohio > Oberlin
West Virginia > Harpers Ferry
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The frozen river
  • "A good abolition convention"
  • The colony and the college
  • "A most well disposed boy"
  • "I have found paradise"
  • "My object in coming to Oberlin"
  • "Not a fugitive was seized"
  • The new marshal
  • "Recital of the wrong and outrage"
  • Wack's Tavern
  • A brace of pistols
  • The Oberlin rescue
  • "The Black Mecca"
  • The felons' feast
  • Votaries of the higher law
  • "The bravest negroes"
  • The invisibles
  • The War Department
  • Hall's Rifle Works
  • "His negro confession"
  • Nothing like a fair trial
  • An abolition harangue
  • Only slave stealing
  • "This guilty land"
  • The colored American heroes.

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