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- Title
Written in Stone: Gender, Race, and the Heyward Shepherd Memorial.
- Authors
Janney, Caroline E.
- Abstract
The article provides information on the memorial initiated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy dedicated to Heyward Shepherd, a black man and first victim of the 1859 raid of John Brown, which was held on October 10, 1931 in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The occasion commenced with a welcoming address by Henry McDonald, the white president of a local black college, highlighting the monument as a tribute to fidelity to duty, faithfulness in times of stress and vigorous defense of honor.
- Subjects
HARPERS Ferry (W. Va.); WEST Virginia; MEMORIAL Day; SHEPHERD, Heyward, d. 1859; BROWN, John; MCDONALD, Henry; MEMORIAL Day addresses
- Publication
Civil War History, 2006, Vol 52, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
0009-8078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cwh.2006.0027