Apostle of Liberation: AME Bishop Paul Quinn and the Underground Railroad - Hardcover

by Cheryl Janifer Laroche (Author)

The first biography of 19th-century circuit-riding Black bishop William Paul Quinn, who liberated thousands through the Underground Railroad and helped establish the AME Church as the largest and most influential Black denomination in post-Civil War America.

Author Biography

Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, PhD, is the author of Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance (2013). She is widely known as an archaeologist and received the John L. Cotter Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology in 2011. LaRoche is an associate research professor in Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park.