Louis A. Decaro, Jr. The Untold Story of Shields Green (Hardback)Another great item from Rarewaves USA | Free delivery!
$ 68.87
Description
Louis A. Decaro, Jr. The Untold Story of Shields Green (Hardback). Further DetailsTitle: The Untold Story of Shields Green Condition: New Subtitle: The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider Author: Louis A. Decaro, Jr. Format: Hardback EAN: 9781479802753 ISBN: 9781479802753 Publisher: New York University Press Genre: History Topic: Biography Release Date: 10/06/2020 Description: Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859 When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper's Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown's invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, "Emperor" Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina, accepted John Brown's invitation. When the raid failed, Emperor was captured with the rest of Brown's surviving men and hanged on December 16, 1859. "Emperor" Shields Green was a critical member of John Brown's Harper's Ferry raiders but has long been overlooked. Louis DeCaro, Jr., a veteran scholar of John Brown, presents the first effort to tell Emperor's story based upon extensive research, restoring him to his rightful place in this fateful raid at the origin of the American Civil War. Starting from his birth in Charleston, South Carolina, Green's life as an abolitionist freedom-fighter, whose passion for the liberation of his people outweighed self-preservation, is extensively detailed in this compact history. In The Untold Story of Shields Green , Emperor pushes back against racism and injustice and stands in his rightful place as an antislavery figure alongside Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 481g Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
