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 ...

You can register for all events by filling out this form. Here are this year’s inductees: LEVI COFFIN Levi Coffin is remembered today as the unofficial “President of the Underground Railroad.” ...

...Soon after we located at Newport, I found that we were on a line of the U.G.R.R. [Underground Railroad]. Fugitives often passed through that place, and generally stopped among the colored ...