Heyward Shepherd was an African-American killed at Harpers Ferry on October 17, 1859, by John Brown's raiders. Shepherd was a porter at the local railroad station and a property owner in nearby Winchester, Virginia. Brown and his men killed Heyward Shepherd, who was a free black man. Shepherd's home was in Winchester, about thirty miles […]

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