Soon after we located at Newport, I found that we were on a line of the U.G.R.R. [Underground Railroad ... fugitives as were disposed to come to my house. I knew that my wife's feelings and ...
Notable participants of the Underground Railroad included John Fairfield, the son of a slaveholding family who facilitated many escapes, Levi Coffin who led more than 3,000 slaves to freedom and ...
The Town Clock Church in Albany, IN was a key stop on the Underground Railroad. Visit this historic church to learn the story.
The stamp features antislavery activist Catharine Coffin and is part of ... an important stop on the expansive Underground Railroad where Catharine and Levi would offer sanctuary from slave ...
Levi Coffin had just moved to Newport, Indiana, an ideal location in which to help fugitive slaves. Despite being born and raised in the slave state of North Carolina, Coffin was an adamant ...