Rev. John Rankin: The American Pastor Who Helped More Than 2,000 Enslaved Africans Escape from Slavery
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In an era when many pastors stood on the fence, or worse, used the Bible to justify slavery with verses like “Slaves, obey your masters as you would Jesus”, one man chose to defy both his peers and the law. Reverend John Rankin, a Presbyterian minister from Tennessee who later settled in Ripley, Ohio, became […]
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