Editing Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
On 17–18 June 1854, an anti-slavery convention of abolitionists was held in Sugar Grove at the farm of James Younie<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Franklin R. |title=Diary |date=17–18 June 1854 |publisher=Frank B. Miller Papers Collection, Warren County Historical Society, Warren, Pennsylvania |url=https://www.facebook.com/warrenhistory/photos/a.475551975833154/4797658570289118/?type=3&eid=ARDsl19j8B-_oDd0oaR7ilJXZyVoe8cOU02p1bYnYlHCHS3u49jS62smxGfDODnl4d6Qrc_vi8v2dh7J&locale=hi_IN&paipv=0&eav=Afb8AQg9pPB8dvjqSVbZqMobMxihsy6y-i_0dLsONX0RkrC1pN7t63pqX6905rjaG_8&_rdr}}</ref> on the western end of the village. [[Frederick Douglass]], [[Lewis Clarke]], and [[Jermain Wesley Loguen|Jermain Loguen]] gave speeches during the weekend event. The William and Sarah Storum family of nearby [[Busti, New York]] organized the convention<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Douglass |first1=Frederick |title=Letter from the Editor |journal=Frederick Douglass' Newspaper |date=23 June 1854 |page=2 |url=http://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026366/1854-06-23/ed-1}}</ref> and likely provided accommodations for the speakers.  Local abolitionist [[Cynthia Catlin Miller]] hosted Douglass for tea.

There is a local celebration of the June 1854 anti-slavery convention that likewise recalls the [[Juneteenth]] holiday.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sugar Grove Underground Railroad Convention |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Sugar+Grove+Underground+Railroad+Convention |newspaper=Thefreedictionary.com}}</ref> There were fugitives that [[Joah Carter]] hid during the [[Underground Railroad]] times from the [[Corry, Pennsylvania]] area.