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Title	Edwin Coppoc Lock of Hair
Subject	Daily Life Civil Liberties Abolitionists Hair Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) History John Brown's Raid, 1859
Place	Salem (Ohio) Columbiana County (Ohio)
Description	This lock of hair enclosed in a frame measuring 5.7" by 7.8" (14.6 by 19.8 cm) is from Edwin Coppoc of Salem, Ohio. Also enclosed in the frame is a statement that appears to have been printed by the Ohio Historical Society indicating that the hair was donated by a cousin of Coppoc's in 1921. Coppoc joined a small group of abolitionists led by John Brown on October 16, 1859. They seized the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in hopes of inspiring and arming a slave insurrection. Both Brown and Coppoc were captured, tried, and convicted of treason. Coppoc was executed on December 16, 1859. John Brown, although born in Torrington, Connecticut, spent more than half his life in Ohio. Like many other "free soil" Ohioans, Brown went in the 1850s to the Kansas Territory, where he employed violence to prevent slavery from spreading. While his raid on Harper's Ferry was unsuccessful, his actions had important consequences. In the opinion of antislavery activist Frederick Douglass, "John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him." Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859.
Date of Original	1845 - 1860 circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s); H 70402
Format	picture; objects
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
Date created	2010-08-30

Title	Om1488_1535225_001
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1488_1535225_001.tif
Image Height	3404
Image Width	2356
File Size	1759.144 KB
Full Text	[corresponds to handwritten text] Edwin Coppoc's Hair He was executed at Harpers Ferry in 1859 for being in the John Brown raid his age at that time was 22
Date created	2009-01-07

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