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Person · 1813–1872

Jermain Wesley Loguen

The "Underground Railroad King" of Syracuse, a formerly enslaved minister who aided some 1,500 people.

A fearless agent of the [[underground-railroad]].

Jermain Loguen escaped slavery, became an AME Zion minister, and openly ran Syracuse as an UGRR hub — daring authorities to arrest him and helping lead the 1851 Jerry Rescue.

On the timeline

  1. October 1, 1851
    The Jerry Rescue

    A Syracuse crowd of thousands breaks into a jail to free William "Jerry" Henry, defying the Fugitive Slave Act.