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By Carol Hunter

Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen was once the most fervent and devoted abolitionists of his day. An ex-slave, he openly revealed in Syracuse newspapers his deal with and invites to different runaways looking freedom. He grew to become notorious for his management within the “Jerry rescue”— one of many only a few winning fugitive slave rescues within the country.

During his lifetime he was once hailed because the “Underground Railroad King” and labored heavily with Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet, Gerrit Smith, Samuel could, and different top figures within the abolitionist stream. He used to be ordained within the AME Zion Church and applied his many church connections to aid fugitives and help the self -emancipated to find jobs and making the transition to freedom. In 2011 Reverend Jermain Loguen was once one of many early inductees into the nationwide Abolition corridor of popularity.

This e-book is the tale of this unsung hero, revealing his passionate lifelong stance for freedom, human rights and equality, his dagger-sharp oratory as preacher and author, and his inner turmoils as a person who, in his personal phrases, may have hottest to were “a nonetheless quiet guy, yet oppression has made me mad.”

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