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The Untold Story of Shields Green: The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider
By DeCaro, Louis A., Jr
- ISBN
- 9781479802753
- Publisher
- New York Univ.
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Reviewed on October 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
The story of John Brown's (1800–59) ill-fated raid on the Federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) is well known. However, the lives of his Black raiders are far less known than that of Brown and his white coconspirators. DeCaro (church history, Alliance Theological Seminary; Freedom's Dawn) seeks to rescue the story of one Black raider, "Emperor" Shields Green from history's shadows. Any at...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
