Southern Horror #95

Southern Horror #95 (Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, 28 of 28) by Kris Graves The Heyward Shepherd monument, in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was erected in 1931 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It commemorates Heyward Shepard, a free black man, who was the first killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The monument was intended to support the Lost Cause allegation that enslaved people were happy and did not want to be freed. While this was going on, I was commissioned by National Geographic to photograph memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South. My friend Marshall Scheuttle and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern states making phot...View all