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 ...

For his efforts, Levi Coffin became known as “president” of the Underground Railroad. The Coffin House in Fountain City, two stories and a basement of big rooms and narrow, shallow stairs, stands as a ...

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 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 ...