Harper's Ferry Memorial
Title
Harper's Ferry Memorial
Description
This memorial, originally placed in Westwood Cemetery sometime around 1865, honors the two Black Oberlin residents who were died as a result of John Brown's 1859 raid on a US arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown and his followers were abolitionists who hoped to ignite an armed slave revolt in the South. Oberlinian Lewis Sheridan Leary was one of the ten participants killed during the raid and John Anthony Copeland was among the seven men who were executed afterwards. Shields Green, another of the executed men, is often assumed to be from Oberlin as well, although there is no evidence that he was. The memorial was moved to Martin Luther King Park in 1971.
Creator
Publisher
Oberlin College Archives
Date
Contributor
Rights
Type
Identifier
www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/Copeland/john_brown_monument.htm
Coverage
1865
17 East Vine Street, Oberlin, OH
Files
Collection
Citation
Jonah Volk, “Harper's Ferry Memorial,” Oberlin Community History Hub, accessed May 6, 2024, https://megansmitchell.org/DH694/items/show/21.