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James Jordan’s Transformation from Slave Catcher to Abolitionist
James Jordan grew up hunting runaway slaves in West Virginia in the 1830s. Yet something changed him.
By 1846, he had moved to Iowa and built a home that hid the very people he once chased.
His farmhouse near the Raccoon River soon became known as a key Underground Railroad stop, with Jordan serving as “Chief Conductor” for all of Polk County…