James Newton Gloucester

The Reverend James Newton Gloucester was an African-American clergyman and businessman who was a supporter of abolitionist John Brown.[1][2] Gloucester lived at 265 Bridge Street, Brooklyn, New York.

Like his father, Gloucester was a Black Presbyterian pastor. In 1849 he founded Siloam Presbyterian Church. He and his church members were very active in the Underground Railroad.

Gloucester was also a friend and associate of John Brown. Two letters he wrote to Brown are still extant.[3]

References
  1. Quarles, Benjamin (2001) [1974]. Allies for Freedom. De Capo Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780306809613.
  2. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth; Genovese, Eugene. The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. Cambridge University Press. p. 639. ISBN 9781139446563.
  3. James N. Gloucester to John Brown, February 19, 1858 and J. N. Gloucester to John Brown, March 9, 1858. C. Peter Ripley, ed., The Black Abolitionist Papers, volume 4 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), 377-379
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