[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. LAZIER, H., photographer. CDV of African American Reverend Jermain Loguen, the "king" or "prince" of the Underground Railroad. Syracuse, NY. 

2 1/8 x 3 9/16 in. CDV on cardstock mount (spotting and toning to image and mount; wear to edges, top of mount partially trimmed). Verso bears Lazier's imprint and penciled identification of subject. Vignetted bust portrait of African American Reverend Jermain Loguen (1813-1872). 

Loguen was born into slavery in Tennessee, the son of his white enslaver and an enslaved woman. Stealing a horse, Loguen escaped in 1834 and traveled to St. Catharine's, Canada, where he practiced farming until relocating to New York in 1837. There he attended Beriah Green's abolitionist school in Whitesboro, and married Caroline Storum in 1840. The couple made their home in Syracuse, where Loguen taught schooled and pastored various congregations of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Loguen was also actively involved with the Underground Railroad, his house serving as a principal station on the route to freedom. He also notably helped rescue a man arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law in 1851, assisting in his escape to Canada. Loguen became a bishop of his church in 1868, four years before he succumbed to tuberculosis.