The Heyward Shepherd monument is a monument in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It commemorates Haywood Shepherd, a free black man who was the first person killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. It was erected in 1931 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), who sought to promote Shepherd as a "faithful slave" and role model for Blacks. The inscription misrepresents the circumstances of Shepherd's death to imply that he consciously opposed John Brown's plan to spark a slave rebellion; in reality, Shepherd was not aware of the plan and believed he was dealing with robbers. The inscription goes on to praise the "faithfulness of thousands of negroes" to the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The idea of the "faithful slave" was an important component of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy", a pseudohistorical myth that the cause of the Confederacy was justified and not centered on slavery. The Heyward Shepherd monument was one of many erected by the UDC.