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Brinkley, Earle

Levi Coffin was born near New Garden in Guilford and was a lifelong Quaker. His Quaker ideals conflicted with the institution of slavery and he became an integral member of the Underground Railroad. With his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Coffin aided 40,000 runaway slaves attain freedom at an estimated personal expense of $50,000 and possibility of imprisonment for law breaking. Coffin's efforts went beyond the Underground Railroad and he was responsible for the freedman's bureau while also establishing orphanages and travelling to Europe to oppose slavery.

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 9 Issue 35, Jan 1942, p11 Periodical Website

Underground Railroad; Slavery--History; Coffin, Levi, 1789-1877

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Israel, Adrienne M.

The author challenges the portrayal of the Underground Railroad created by popular culture, asserting it is incomplete. What Israel adds to the knowledge canon of the Underground Railroad includes contributions made by free blacks, Quakers, and Southerners; lesser-known purposes for the Railroad; its actual success rate; the number of fugitives who escaped without aid.

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 95 Issue 1, January 2018, p1-28

Underground Railroad; Underground Railroad--Quakers; Underground Railroad--free blacks; Coffin, Levi, 1789-1877; Underground Railroad--Rev. Jonathan Cable; Historic Jamestown Society--Underground Railroad; Mendenhall Home Place--Underground Railroad; Black watermen--Tidewater Region--Underground Railroad; Quakers--Slavery; Society of Friends--see also Quakers; Coffin, Addison; Coffin, Vestal; Piedmont Underground Railroad--free blacks; New Garden Friends Boarding School--Piedmont Underground Railroad; Stanley, Joshua; Stanley, Abigail Hunt; Guilford College--Friends Historical Collection; Guilford College--Quaker Archives; Abolitionists; Abolitionists--North Carolina; Dismal Swamp--Runaway Slaves; Manumission Society--Guilford County; Free blacks--Antebellum South