Jermain Wesley Loguen

“A welcome and necessary account of a fugitive from slavery.”—Kirkus Reviews“Murphy shines a brilliant spotlight on a vital but underappreciated abolitionist. This is the definitive account of a defiant fugitive who sought, for himself and others, a land for the free and homes for the brave.”—W. Caleb McDaniel, author of Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America“For too long, Loguen’s incredible activism, courage, and contributions to Black freedom have been understudied. For his life, we owe Loguen a great debt. For Angela Murphy’s painstaking scholarship, we owe deep gratitude.”—Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance“Angela F. Murphy, author of the definitive study of the ‘Jerry Rescue,’ has written a superb biography of a leader of that struggle, the Reverend Jermain Loguen, himself a fugitive slave from middle Tennessee.”—R. J. M. Blackett, author of Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle

Angela F. Murphy is a professor in the Department of History at Texas State University. She is the author of The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis. She lives in Wimberley, TX.