English: A cenotaph erected to honor the "colored citizens of Oberlin" who died during or because of their participation in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry: John Copeland, Shields Green, & Lewis Sheridan Leary. See John Brown’s raiders. Note that the death date of December 2 given for Green & Copeland is wrong; it should be December 16. Shields Green's link to Oberlin is disputed; see Shields Green. Although located in a cemetery, none of the 3 bodies are buried there. The bodies of Green & Copeland were used for anatomical dissections at the Winchester Medical College, & the bones discarded. Leary's body was thrown in a packing box with other bodies of raiders killed, & dumped in a pit; in C.E.1899 they were excavated (surreptitiously) & reburied next to the bodies of John Brown & Watson Brown, on his farm.