"coffin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Levi Coffin, one of the founders of the "railroad", was a Guilford County native.
- For example, Levi Coffin started helping runaway slaves as a child in North Carolina.
- Levi Coffin (October 28, 1798 - September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, and businessman.
- Levi Coffin made the Cincinnati area the center of his anti-slavery efforts in 1847.
- Slaves from Madison and some from Cincinnati were moved north to Newport, where the primary organizers of the system lived for some time: Levi Coffin.
- Levi Coffin was also an active abolitionist, helping thousands of escaped slaves migrate to Canada and opening a store for selling products made by former slaves.
- Hoosiers like Levi Coffin came to play an important role in the Underground Railroad that helped many slaves escape from the South.
- But others immigrated to Indiana such as Levi Coffin, a North Carolina Quaker who was an outspoken abolitionist.
- In that state he became associated with Levi Coffin in the "underground railroad" and assisted fugitive slaves until the close of the war.
- William Woodward built a home on the site in 1832, where Levi Coffin and his wife, Catharine, lived from 1856 to 1863.
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