The untold story of Shields Green, the life and death of a Harper's Ferry raider, Louis A. DeCaro Jr
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- Biographies
- South Carolina + Charleston
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Biography
- Green, Shields, 1836?-1859
- History
- 1859
- West Virginia + Harpers Ferry
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Biography
- African American abolitionists -- Biography
- Fugitive slaves
- Free African Americans -- Biography
- United States
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
- John Brown's Raid, (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia :, 1859)
- African Americans
- Free African Americans
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The untold story of Shields Green, the life and death of a Harper's Ferry raider, Louis A. DeCaro Jr
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The untold story of Shields Green
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1153067832
Responsibility statement
Louis A. DeCaro Jr
Sub title
the life and death of a Harper's Ferry raider
Summary
"This title examines the life and death of Shields Green"--, Provided by publisherWhen John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper?s Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown?s invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, “Emperor” Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina, accepted John Brown?s invitation. When the raid failed, Emperor was captured with the rest of Brown?s surviving men and hanged on December 16, 1859. “Emperor” Shields Green was a critical member of John Brown?s Harper?s Ferry raiders but has long been overlooked. Louis DeCaro, Jr., a veteran scholar of John Brown, presents the first effort to tell Emperor?s story based upon extensive research, restoring him to his rightful place in this fateful raid at the origin of the American Civil War. Starting from his birth in Charleston, South Carolina, Green?s life as an abolitionist freedom-fighter, whose passion for the liberation of his people outweighed self-preservation, is extensively detailed in this compact history. In The Untold Story of Shields Green, Emperor pushes back against racism and injustice and stands in his rightful place as an antislavery figure alongside Frederick Douglass and John Brown
Table of contents
Emperor mysterious : to find the man who lives -- Emperor enlisted -- Emperor among the "Invisibles" -- Maryland, 1859 -- The Raid and the black witness -- Alias Emperor -- Emperor seen : image and identity -- Epilogue : legacy, relic, legend
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