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2. Levi Coffin - Wikipedia

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   Levi Coffin Jr. (October 28, 1798 – September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, Republican, abolitionist, farmer, businessman and humanitarian. 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.

3. Underground Railroad in Indiana - Wikipedia

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   A smaller number of fugitive slaves entered Indiana from Cincinnati, Ohio. Today, only a few Underground Railroad sites in Indiana are open to the public, including the Catherine and Levi Coffin home (called the "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad") in Wayne County and Eleutherian College in Jefferson County. Other sites have ...

4. Levi Coffin House - Wikipedia

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   The Coffin House is a National Historic Landmark located in the present-day town of Fountain City in Wayne County, Indiana.The two-story, eight room, brick home was constructed circa 1838–39 in the Federal style.

5. Elijah Anderson (Underground Railroad) - Wikipedia

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   It was on this journey that he was spotted and identified. A few months later, an abolitionist activist, William J. Anderson was mistaken for Elijah Anderson on this journey and accused of aiding runaway slaves into Kentucky. [10] William J. Anderson, once defended by an abolitionist lawyer, was released from custody.

6. The Philanthropist (Cincinnati, Ohio) - Wikipedia

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   The Philanthropist was an abolitionist newspaper printed in Cincinnati, Ohio, starting in 1836, edited by James G. Birney, and printed Achilles Pugh for the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. Originally published at New Richmond, Ohio due to complications with Cincinnati mayor Samuel W. Davies, the paper moved to Cincinnati in April 1836 to resume ...

7. History of slavery in Indiana - Wikipedia

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   Slavery in Indiana occurred between the time of French rule during the late seventeenth century and 1826, with a few traces of slavery afterward. Opposition to slavery began to organize in Indiana around 1805, and in 1809 abolitionists took control of the territorial legislature and overturned many of the laws permitting retaining of slaves.