James W.C. Pennington

TheA story of James W.C. Pennington who was aA former slave, then a Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement.A He escaped from slavery aged 19A in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery before theA Civil War. In 1837 heA was ordained as a priest after studying at Yale and was soon traveling all over the world as an anti-slavery advocate.