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Author:

Lubet, Steven.

Title:

The "colored hero" of Harpers Ferry : John Anthony Copeland and the war against slavery / Steven Lubet, Northwestern University School of Law.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Copeland, John A.--(John Anthony)
African American abolitionists--Biography.
Brown, John,--1800-1859--Friends and associates.
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859.
Antislavery movements--Oberlin--Oberlin--History--19th century.
Abolitionists--Biography.
1800 - 1899

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.

Contents:

The frozen river -- "A good abolition convention" -- The colony and the college -- "A most well disposed boy" -- "I have found paradise" -- "My object in coming to Oberlin" -- "Not a fugitive was seized" -- The new marshal -- "Recital of the wrong and outrage" -- Wack's Tavern -- A brace of pistols -- The Oberlin rescue -- "The Black Mecca" -- The felons' feast -- Votaries of the higher law -- "The bravest negroes" -- The invisibles -- The War Department -- Hall's Rifle Works -- "His negro confession" -- Nothing like a fair trial -- An abolition harangue -- Only slave stealing -- "This guilty land" -- The colored American heroes.

ISBN:

1107076021
9781107076020

OCLC:

(OCoLC)900635424

LCCN:

2015002308

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)