Jermain Wesley Loguen – Defiant Fugitive - Angela F Murphy

A gripping biography of a man who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the “King of the Underground Railroad”  Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813–1872) was a fugitive from slavery, an abolitionist, and a minister, teacher, and political activist. He worked alongside Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and his home in Syracuse, New York, was among the most publicized Underground Railroad stations in the northern states. Loguen’s political commitments in the... Zobrazit více