The Untold Story of Shields Green: The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider

by Louis A DeCaro Jr and Louis A. DeCaro Jr.

Book Overview

Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859

When 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479802751
• ISBN13: 9781479802753
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"