Join the Gist of Freedom for a live performance, Dr. David Anderson is Shields Green! Mr. Green was one of the five black men that rode with John Brown! Known as the “Emperor,” Shields Green played a role in John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. As a young man he escaped through the Underground Railroad network to Rochester, New York, where Frederick Douglass provided shelter and introduced him to radical abolitionists.
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john anderson actor frederick Douglass shields
| shields green john brown raid actor play | emperor shields green performance act play | black history african american studies gist | lesley gist black history blog podcast freedom