Reminiscences of Levi Coffin: The Reputed President of the Underground Railroad
by Coffin, Levi
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Hard cover. Octavo.[viii] 712pages with two frontispiece portraits of Levi and Catherine Coffin. Beautifully rebound in half calf over marbled boards by Period Bookbinders Company, UK. A touch of foxing to frontispieces otherwise clean and unmarked throughout.
"A brief History Of The Labors Of A Lifetime In Behalf Of The Slave, With The Stories Of Numerous Fugitives Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, And Many Other Incidents."
Levi Coffin was an active leader of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio, some unofficially called Coffin the "President of the Underground Railroad," estimating that three thousand fugitive slaves passed through his care. The Coffin home in Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, is now a museum, sometimes called the Underground Railroad's "Grand Central Station." Howes B923.
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- Abacus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 640-2
- Title
- Reminiscences of Levi Coffin
- Author
- Coffin, Levi
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Lowe, Marston Searle and Rivington, and Western Tract Society
- Place of Publication
- London and Cincinnati, OH
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Slavery, Underground Railroad
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