Anderson, Osborne Perry

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    Osborne Perry Anderson
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    Race
    Black
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    North
    Origins
    Free State
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    Relation to Slavery
    Free black
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    Union Army

    Osborn Perry Anderson (Villard, 1910)

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    Osborn Perry Anderson, colored, survived the raid to die of consumption at Washington, D. C., December 13, 1872. Born July 27, 1830, at West Fallowfield, Pennsylvania, he was in his thirtieth year at the time of the raid, of which and o f his escape he left a record in ‘A Voice from Harper’s Ferry,’ which contains, however, many erroneous statements. He learned the printing trade in Canada, where he met John Brown in 1858. After his escape he returned to Canada. During the Civil War, in 1864, he enlisted, became a non-commissioned officer, and was mustered out at the close of the war in Washington.
    Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), 685.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    "The Five Brave Negroes with John Brown at Harpers Ferry." Negro History Bulletin 27, no. 7 (1964): 164-169. view record
    Anderson, Osborne P. A Voice from Harper's Ferry: A Narrative of Events at Harper's Ferry. Boston, 1861.
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