Newby, Dangerfield

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Dangerfield Newby
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    Black
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Relation to Slavery
    Slave or Former Slave

    Dangerfield Newby (Villard, 1910)

    Scholarship
    Dangerfield Newby, colored, was born a slave in 1815, in Fauqier County, Virginia. His father, a Scotchman, freed his mulatto children. Newby’s wife, from whom he received the touching letters given in the text, was the slave of Jesse Jennings, of Warington, Virginia. She and her children were “sold South” after the raid, but it is said that she subsequently lived in Ohio. The shot that gave Newby his death-wound cut his throat from ear to ear, the missile being a six-inch spike in lieu of a bullet. Newby was six feet two inches tall, a splendid physical specimen, of light color.
    Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), 686.
    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
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