| 词条 | Dangerfield Newby |
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| name = Dangerfield Newby | image = Image:dangerfieldnewby.jpg | alt = | caption = Newby, c. 1850 | birth_date = 1815 | birth_place = Culpepper County, Virginia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1859|10|16|1815}} | death_place = Harpers Ferry, West Virginia | known_for = Raid on Harpers Ferry }}Dangerfield Newby (1815 – October 16, 1859) was the oldest of John Brown's raiders, one of five black raiders, and the first of his men to die at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.[1] LifeBorn into slavery in Fauquier County, Virginia, Newby married a woman also enslaved. Newby's father was Henry Newby, a landowner in Fauquier County. His mother was Elsey Newby, who was a slave, owned not by Henry, but by a neighbor, John Fox. Elsey and Henry lived together for many years and had several children, although interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. Dangerfield was their first child. Dangerfield Newby, his mother and his siblings were later freed by his father when he moved them across the Ohio River into Bridgeport, Ohio. John Fox, who died in 1859, apparently did not attempt to retrieve Elsey, Dangerfield, or any of his siblings.[2] Dangerfield's wife and their seven children remained in bondage?[3] A letter found on his body revealed some of his motivation for joining John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry. Dangerfield Newby's wife, Harriet Newby, was the slave of Jesse Jennings, of Arlington or Warrenton, Virginia. She and her children were sold to Louisiana after the raid. Newby had been unable to purchase the freedom of his wife and seven children. Their master raised the price after Newby had saved the $1,500 that had previously been agreed on. Because all of Newby's other efforts had failed he hoped to free them by force. Harriet's poignant letters, found on his body, proved instrumental in advancing the abolitionist cause. Newby was six foot two. On 17 October 1859, the citizens of Harpers Ferry set to put down the raid. Harpers Ferry manufactured guns but the citizens had little ammunition, so during the assault on the raiders they fired anything they could fit into a gun barrel. One man was shooting six inch spikes from his rifle, one of which struck Newby in the throat, killing him instantly. After the raid, the people of Harpers Ferry took his body, stabbed it repeatedly, and amputated his limbs. His body was left in an alley to be eaten by hogs.[4] In 1899 the remains of Newby-plus remains of nine other raiders-were reburied in a common grave near the body of John Brown in North Elba, New York. Letter from Harriet NewbyThe following letter was found on Dangerfield Newby's body after the failed Harpers Ferry raid:[5] BRENTVILLE, August 16, 1859. References1. ^{{cite web|title=JoUehn Brown's black raiders|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2941.html|work=Africans in America|publisher=WGBH; PBS Online|accessdate=20 August 2011}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Schwarz|first=Philip J.|title=Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation|year=2001|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=0813920086}} 3. ^http://www.harpersferrywv.net/ghost_stories_of_harpers_ferry__.htm#Dangerfield {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008000306/http://www.harpersferrywv.net/ghost_stories_of_harpers_ferry__.htm |date=2011-10-08 }} Newby 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/25750|title=Black America Web|work=Black America Web|accessdate=12 May 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/trailblazers/res/Harriet_Newby_Letters.pdf |title=Dangerfield Newby’s Letters from His Wife, Harriet |accessdate=20 August 2011}} External links
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