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.
Yet in front of Do.
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.
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