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Oberlin and the Underground Railroad

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In 1859, Oberlin's African American lawyer and activist, John Mercer Langston recruited two fo the town's prominent young men of color, John A. Copeland and Lewis Sheridan Leary into John Brown's band of twenty-one raiders. They attacked the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Leary was killed during the unsuccessful attempt to bring about emancipation through a slave insurrection. before his hanging in Charleston, Virginia on December 19, 1859, Copeland wrote to his family in Oberlin, "how dear brother could I die a more noble cause!" Oberlinites memorialized these two martyrs and co-conspirator, Shields Green, with the only monument erected for any of the five African Americans who fought with John Brown. The monument stands in Oberlin's Martin Luther King Park.

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