Author: J. Ewing GlasgowPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Harper's Ferry Insurrection: Being an Account of the Late Outbreak in Virginia, and of the Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown, Its Hero
Dictionary Catalog
Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and HistoryPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black CulturePublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library75 Years of Freedom
Author: Library of CongressNineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Five for Freedom
Author: Eugene L. MeyerPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161373574X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines battered their way in on October 18. The raiders were routed, and several were captured. Soon after, they were tried, convicted, and hanged. Among Brown's fighters were five African American men—John Copeland, Shields Green, Dangerfield Newby, Lewis Leary, and Osborne Perry Anderson—whose lives and deaths have long been overshadowed by their martyred leader and who, even today, are little remembered. Only Anderson survived, later publishing the lone insider account of the event that, most historians agree, was a catalyst to the catastrophic American Civil War that followed. Five for Freedom is the story of these five brave men, the circumstances in which they were born and raised, how they came together at this fateful time and place, and the legacies they left behind. It is an American story that continues to resonate.
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