Jermain Loguen was an African-American abolitionist, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and author of a slave narrative. Loguen was born to an enslaved woman named Cherry in Davidson County, Tennessee, and a white man. At the age of 21, he escaped bondage on his second attempt with the help of his mother. […]
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