The Untold Story of Shields Green : : The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider / / Louis A. Decaro Jr.
Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859When 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 dang...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 14 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Emperor Mysterious: To Find the Man Who Lived
- 2 Emperor Enlisted
- 3 Emperor among the “Invisibles”: Maryland, 1859
- 4 The Raid and the Black Witness
- 5 Alias Emperor
- 6 Emperor Seen: Image and Identity
- Epilogue: Legacy, Relic, Legend
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author