Jermain Loguen

1813 – 1872

A formerly enslaved man who became a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Jermain Loguen was a leading Syracuse abolitionist who helped organize the October 1851 Jerry Rescue, in which a crowd broke into a police station to free William "Jerry" Henry, arrested under the newly passed Fugitive Slave Act. Loguen's own home in Syracuse was itself a well-known Underground Railroad station.