Jeremiah Asher (Q490426)

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HC-PER-36103
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Jeremiah Asher
HC-PER-36103
  • HC-PER-36103

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Free before 13th Amendment. Protested discriminatory seating in the predominately white Baptist church he initially attended, then founded his own church and raised money by touring England and publishing Incidents in the Life of the Rev. J. Asher (1850). One of 14 Black chaplains in the Union army.