D.C. Mondays: Abolitionist Leonard Grimes

Leonard Grimes is best known as the pastor of Boston’s “Fugitive Slaves’ Church,” but his antislavery work began decades earlier on the corner of H and 22nd Streets NW in Washington. GW graduate Eileen Cunha shares Grimes’ story, from D.C. cab driver to Underground Railroad conductor.

About Eileen Cunha

Eileen Cunha, received a B.A. from the George Washington University in 2023, where she studied early American and 19th-century U.S. history with a focus on slavery and abolition. Cunha’s passion lies in storytelling. When she's not studying history, she works in strategic communications and public affairs at a D.C.-based consulting firm.

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