Shields Green was known as the 'Emperor.' He was a fugitive slave who was executed in 1859 for his role in John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry. Green was born a slave in South Carolina around 1925 to 1936. As a young man he escaped through the Underground Railroad network to Rochester, New York, where […]

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