{"id":4252,"date":"2023-04-21T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:24:30","slug":"loguen-jermain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/loguen-jermain\/","title":{"rendered":"Loguen, Jermain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jermain Loguen\u00a0<\/strong>(1813-1872) escaped from slavery in Tennessee, becoming a prolific Underground Railroad activist and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. The son of his white slaveholder, Loguen <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1834-jermain-loguen-escape\/\">escaped from Tennessee<\/a> in 1834, settling in Canada West for several years and changing his name from &#8220;Jarm Logue.&#8221; By the 1840s, Loguen relocated to Syracuse, New York, where his very public assistance to freedom seekers earned him the title of the &#8220;Underground Railroad King.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/reconsidering-the-underground-railroad-in-canada-west-barker\/\">Barker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/epilogue-blackett\/\">Blackett<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/myths-of-the-underground-railroad-bordewich\/\">Bordewich<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/underground-railroad-historiography-crew\/\">Crew<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/foner-on-middle-atlantic-region-foner\/\">Foner<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/violence-and-black-resistance-jackson\/\">Jackson<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/religion-and-the-underground-railroad-laroche\/\">LaRoche<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Sinha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/abolitionist\/\">Abolitionist<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/freedom-seeker\/\">Freedom Seeker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/ugrr-operative\/\">UGRR Operative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jermain Loguen\u00a0(1813-1872) escaped from slavery in Tennessee, becoming a prolific Underground Railroad activist and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. The son of his white slaveholder, Loguen escaped from Tennessee in 1834, settling in Canada West for several years and changing his name from &#8220;Jarm Logue.&#8221; By the 1840s, Loguen relocated to Syracuse, New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23509,23510,23512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abolitionist","category-freedom-seeker","category-ugrr-operative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}