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3 days ago · Fountain City’s annual Levi Coffin Days festival, which happens the third weekend of September, featured live music, history and good food for festivalgoers this year. View photos of the weekend captured by Joshua Smith below. Festival goers walk Main Street during Levi Coffin Days in Fountain City, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. Photo by Joshua ...
Nov 11, 2005 · Levi Coffin was born in 1798 in New Garden, North Carolina. He was raised in The New Garden Society of Friends, a Quaker meeting which still stands across the street from Guilford. He was deeply spiritual and strongly opposed slavery. Not one member of Coffin’s family ever owned a slave. Coffin’s first law was his conscience and the law of ...
Glenalvin. joined a studio in Saginaw, where he worked for a time. In 1867, at the age of 38 or 39, Glenalvin Good-ridge died of tuberculosis in Minneapolis. “His family had six photographers ...
Sep 12, 2024 · Levi Coffin (born October 28, 1798, New Garden [now in Greensboro], North Carolina, U.S.—died September 16, 1877, Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American abolitionist, called the “President of the Underground Railroad,” who assisted thousands of runaway slaves on their flight to freedom. Coffin was raised on a farm, an upbringing that provided ...
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Aug 10, 2022 · Levi and Catharine Coffin lived in Indiana from 1826 to 1847, having relocated from North Carolina. They began helping enslaved people journey north out of slave states almost immediately. Levi Coffin estimated they helped as many as 100 people a year, and various sources say the Coffins helped from 1,000 to 3,500 people considering both their time in Indiana and their time in Ohio.
Nov 3, 2001 · The Underground Railroad. by Levi Coffin. 1850. Levi Coffin was a key leader of the Underground Railroad, and claimed to have helped an average of 100 escaping slaves in his own home in Cincinnati every year for 33 years. The fabled Undergound Railroad was a network of over 3,000 homes and other “stations” that helped escaping slaves travel ...
At some point in the mid-1860s—likely after the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act in June 1864—this group of formerly enslaved people gathered with Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin in the Cincinnati studio of James Presley Ball, one of the period’s most prominent African American photographers.
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