the street over 24 hours, "exposed to every indignity that could be heaped upon it by the excited populace." The people of Harpers Ferry stabbed it repeatedly, and amputated his limbs. "The treatment the lifeless bodies of those wretched men received from some of the infuriated populace was far from creditable to the actors or to human nature in general." "Though dead and gory, vengeance was unsatisfied, and many, as they ran sticks into his wound. or beat him with them, wished that he had a thousand lives, that all of them might be forfeited in expiation and avengement of the foul deed he had committed." The Baltimore Sun, however, describes Newby's body in the street thus: "No one seemed to notice him particularly, more than any other dead animal." Hogs were observed eating it. "Hog Alley" in Harpers Ferry is said to have gotten its name from this incident. Newby's body, and those of 7 of the 9 others killed, were thrown in a packing box which went in a pit, without ceremony, clergy, or marker. (The bodies of the other two were taken to Winchester Medical College for dissection by students.) In 1899 they were dug up and reburied in a single coffin on the former John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York. Newby's family Dangerfield's widow Harriet married a man named William Robinson, from Berkeley County, West Virginia, who served in the Union Army in Louisiana. They raised three children, along with Dangerfield's, and settled near Mount Vernon, Virginia. Harriet died in 1884, and as of 1991, Dangerfield's and her descendants "still live in the D.C. area and beyond." A niece of Newby, Ida Newby, graduated from Storer College in 1884. Letter from Harriet Newby The following letter was found on Dangerfield Newby's body after the failed Harpers Ferry raid: Honors In 2009, Newby was honored by the Library of Virginia as a 2009 African American Trailblazers. "Dear husband" is an aria sung by Harriet Newby, using words from her letters, and is part of the opera John Brown, by Kirke Mechem. It has been separately performed. See also John Brown's raiders#Black participation References African-American abolitionists 1820 births 1859 deaths American rebel slaves 19th-century American slaves People from Culpeper County, Virginia Participants in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry People killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry Literate American slaves People from Ashtabula County, Ohio