In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Osborne P. Anderson, of which a great deal isn’t known, except his participation in the 1859 raid on the U.S. armory at Harper’s Ferry in West Virginia with John Brown. Anderson was one of the few men who escaped with his life after the seizure of the armory was broken by the U.S. Marines.
In his 1861 book, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, he writes affectionately of the old man, John Brown, and credits the raid as a victory for freedom, writing, “John Brown did not only capture and hold Harper’s Ferry for twenty hours, but he held the whole South. He captured President Buchanan and his cabinet, convulsed the whole country; killed Governor Wise, and dug the mine and laid the train which will eventually dissolve the union between freedom and slavery. For Hard Knock Radio, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
These commentaries are recorded by Noel Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
