. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. ylor, Edwin and Barclay Coppoc,and Francis J. Merriam, white men,and Osborne P. Anderson, WilliamCopeland, Lewis Sherrard Leary,and Shields Green (known usuallyas the Emperor ), colored. Nomention is made as being at thefarm of Dangerfield Newby, theVirginian free man, who foughtand died at Harpers Ferry, in theevident hope of making his wifefree. She was a slave woman wholived about thirty miles south ofHarpers Ferry and was then, asletters show, about to be sold toa Louisiana trader. She was sub-s
. John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry. ylor, Edwin and Barclay Coppoc,and Francis J. Merriam, white men,and Osborne P. Anderson, WilliamCopeland, Lewis Sherrard Leary,and Shields Green (known usuallyas the Emperor ), colored. Nomention is made as being at thefarm of Dangerfield Newby, theVirginian free man, who foughtand died at Harpers Ferry, in theevident hope of making his wifefree. She was a slave woman wholived about thirty miles south ofHarpers Ferry and was then, asletters show, about to be sold toa Louisiana trader. She was sub-sequently so sold and still lives, Ilearn, in the Pelican State, madefree by the civil war. Of the twenty-one followers assembled in the Ken-nedy dwelling, thirteen of them, including the Brownsand William Thompson, had all seen service in Kan-sas. Of the younger whites—Dauphin Thompsonwas a North Elba recruit, the brothers Coppoc werefrom Iowa, and Francis Jackson Merriam, a grandsonof the president of the American Anti-Slavery Society,came naturally with his hostility to chattel bondage,. JOHN EDWIN COOK, 276 JOHN BROWN. though his feeling did not take the non-resist-ance form of Francis Jackson. Adolphus DauphinThompson and Barclay Coppoc were both in theirtwentieth year; Merriam was not over unmarried men were besides these three young-sters,— Owen Brown, Kagi, Stevens, Tidd, Leeman,Edwin Coppoc, Taylor, Jerry 9i Anderson, his colorednamesake, Osborne, and Shields Green—twelve outof the twenty-two. During the summer months thewives of Oliver and Watson Brown had both been atthe Kennedy Farm on short visits. Virginia, thewife of Captain Cook, was then at Chambersburg,Pa., waiting with her young child for the news of anevent whose nature she but half suspected. Thewives of the Browns were all in North Elba. Theroads by which the little band of heroic emancipatorshad traveled to reach Harpers Ferry that fatefulSunday evening, were indeed sufficiently define
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