Steven Lubet

'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry (eBook, ePUB)

John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery

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Produktbeschreibung

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 played a leading role in the momentous Oberlin slave rescue, and he successfully escorted a fugitive to Canada, making him an ideal recruit for Brown's invasion of Virginia. He fought bravely at Harpers Ferry, only to be captured and charged with murder and treason. With his trademark lively prose and compelling narrative style, Steven Lubet paints a vivid portrait of this young black man who gave his life for freedom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316349205
• Artikelnr.: 43808397

Autorenporträt

Steven Lubet is the Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and a leading authority on African American resistance to slavery and notable trials in American history. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp, Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial and John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook. Lubet has been an award-winning columnist for the American Lawyer Magazine, a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, and the author of many op-ed pieces in national newspapers and on Slate.com and Salon.com.

Inhaltsangabe

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.