Black Fact= 1859- John A. Copeland, Shields Green, Dangerfield Newby, and Sheridan Leavy were hanged in Charlestown, VA, on this date in 1859 for their participation in the Harper’s Ferry insurrection. Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. #theraydiotwins
