Shields Green
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Shields Green, who also referred to himself as "Emperor", was, according to Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave from Charleston, South Carolina, and a leader in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, in
Green awaiting his trial after the Harpers Ferry raid
In a stone quarry near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Shields Green, with dark skin, is at center, Frederick Douglass on the left and John Brown on the right. Watercolor by Richard Schlecht.
Shields Green, John Copeland, and Albert Hazlett in their cell in the Jefferson County jail
Death sentence of Shields Green, November 10, 1859
Winchester Medical College
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The Winchester Medical College building, currently located at 302 W. Boscawen Street, Winchester, Virginia, along with all its records, equipment, museum, and library, was burned on May 16, 1862, by U
Shields Green
…and two others. As there was no one protecting their graves, the bodies of Green and Copeland were dug up within hours by students and faculty of the Winchester Medical College, for use in anatomy classes, in which the corpses were dissected. At the time, this was a common way of using or disposing of unclaimed bodies. Monroe…
Winchester Medical College, Winchester, Virginia (detail). Note the white cupula over the glass dome.
Faculty at Winchester Medical College
Original burial site of Oliver Brown and seven others killed at Harpers Ferry.
Dr. Jarvis J. Johnson