Image via WikipediaDuring the famous raid on Harper’s Ferry by white abolitionist John Brown, the first black to be killed in his band of freedom fighters was Dangerfield Newby. A slave of Faquier County, Virginia, Newby stood at six-feet, two-inches tall and was a child of his slavemaster, who eventually freed all his mulatto children in 1858. CONTINUE....
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