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

ISBN-13: 9781107076020 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 282 str.

Steven Lubet

Opis

This is the first and only biography of one of John Brown's African American comrades, John Anthony Copeland.

Recenzje

'This is a very good book, well-paced and replete with interesting moments and finely noted details. … Full of such fascinating details, The 'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery will appeal to a wide readership. Lubet's writing is concise and approachable, and Copeland's story is engrossing.' Keith D. McCall, The Journal of African American History

Spis treści

Prologue; 1. The frozen river; 2. 'A good abolition convention'; 3. The colony and the college; 4. 'A most well disposed boy'; 5. 'I have found paradise'; 6. 'My object in coming to Oberlin'; 7. 'Not a fugitive was seized'; 8. The new marshal; 9. 'Recital of the wrong and outrage'; 10. Wack's tavern; 11. A brace of pistols; 12. The Oberlin rescue; 13. 'The black mecca'; 14. The felons' feast; 15. Votaries of the higher law; 16. 'The bravest Negroes'; 17. The invisibles; 18. The war department; 19. Hall's rifle works; 20. 'His Negro confession'; 21. Nothing like a fair trial; 22. An abolition harangue; 23. Only slave stealing; 24. 'This guilty land'; 25. The colored American heroes; Epilogue.