The "colored hero" of Harper's Ferry : John Anthony Copeland and the war against slavery /
Lubet, Steven,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
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.
Copeland, John A. (John Anthony)
Brown, John, 1800-1859
African American abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Abolitionists