Shields Green
(1836-1859)
American slave executed for murder
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Shields Green (1836? – December 16, 1859), 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 October 1859. He had lived for almost two years in the house of Douglass, in Rochester, New York, and Douglass introduced him there to Brown.
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Esau Brown 1836 South Carolina, USA
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16 December 1859 (aged 23) Charles Town (now West Virginia), USA
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