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The Colored Hero of Harper's Ferry John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery
Author: Steven Lubet
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" by Brown's many biographers and other historians of ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107076020
ISBN-10: 1107076021
Publication Date: 9/10/2015
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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