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Free Webinar: “Jermain Wesley Loguen and the Politics of Racial Uplift”
Venue: Online Virtual Event, New River Valley
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Date: Monday, November 17, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies presents the webinar "Jermain Wesley Loguen and the Politics of Racial Uplift" on Tuesday, November 17, 2025 online on Zoom.

"From Resistance to Reconstruction: Jermain Wesley Loguen and the Politics of Racial Uplift," is a free online lecture and discussion with Angela F. Murphy, drawing on her recently published biography of Jermain Wesley Loguen.

Loguen (1813–1872) was a fugitive from slavery, an abolitionist, and a minister, teacher, and political activist. He worked alongside Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and his home in Syracuse, New York, was among the most publicized Underground Railroad stations in the northern states. Loguen’s political commitments in the years before the Civil War were carried out at great personal risk, for he had liberated himself from slavery in Tennessee and was in constant danger of being captured and reenslaved under the Fugitive Slave Law.

Defiantly, however, he refused to purchase his own freedom, an act that he believed would have legitimized the rights of slaveholders. In addition to aiding fellow fugitives from slavery, Loguen worked tirelessly to promote Black equality and uplift throughout upstate New York and Canada.

The talk is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

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