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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Old Rock House</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/09/faith-freedom-daily-rock-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Old Rock House (now the Lovejoy Apartments at 2705 College Avenue) was built in 1834-35 for a friend of Elijah P. Lovejoy, the Rev. T. B. Hurlbut.  Reported to be another way station on the Underground Railroad, it was also the site of a meeting at which the State Anti-Slavery Society of Illinois was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Hampshire Colony Congregational Church &#8211; Princeton, IL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Lovejoy started Hampshire Colony Congregational Church shortly after he arrived in Princeton, IL. A staunch abolitionist, Rev. Lovejoy also served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he defended emancipation in the face of stiff proslavery forces. Siebert, Wilbur H. &#8220;The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom.&#8221; New York: The Macmillan Company, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Zion Baptist Missionary Church, Springfield, Illinois</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Located in Springfield, Illinois, the Zion Baptist Missionary Church was a station on the Underground Railroad. Among its most noteworthy members was Thomas Jefferson Houston, one of the African American founders of the church and himself a conductor on the Underground Railroad.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Community Baptist Church, Illinois</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1838 the Northern Baptist Association of Illinois met at Community Baptist Church in Warrenville. They gathered in response to the death of abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy and passed a resolution condemning slavery.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Senator Hiram Rhoades Revels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiram Rhoades Revels, a free African American, was born on September 1, 1822 in Fayetteville, NC. As a young man, Revels was educated in Indiana and Illinois before being ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845. Prior to settling down in Baltimore MD, Revels traveled as a circuit preacher through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Benjamin Lundy</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/05/faith-freedom-daily-benjamin-lundy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 05:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Lundy, a friend of freedom seekers and a philanthropist, was born on January 4, 1789 in Hardwick, Warren County, NJ. A Quaker by birth, Lundy learned of the evils of slavery in Wheeling, VA, where he worked as an apprentice from 1808 to 1812. From this moment on Lundy promised to expose the evils [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Rev Owen Lovejoy</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/04/owen-lovejoy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1811-1864 “Owen Lovejoy&#8230;aids every fugitive that comes to his door and asks it. Proclaim it then from the housetops. Write it on every leaf that trembles in the forest, make it blaze from the sun at high noon&#8230;I bid you defiance in the name of my God!&#8221; Brother’s death deepened commitment This Congregational minister used [...]]]></description>
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