In this excerpt from Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, first published in 1876, the Quaker and abolitionist describes how he and his cousin Vestal Coffin began to aid fugitive slaves in North Carolina early in the 1800s.
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In this excerpt from Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, first published in 1876, the Quaker and abolitionist describes how he and his cousin Vestal Coffin began to aid fugitive slaves in North Carolina early in the 1800s.