The 'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery

by 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 the antebellum era. This book brings one such man, John Anthony Copeland, directly to center stage. Copeland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107076021
• ISBN13: 9781107076020
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"