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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground railroad [electronic resource] : being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Text scanned (OCR) by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Melissa G. Meeks and Natalia Smith.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Aug. 28, 2002).
Formatted Contents Note:
Appendix: 1. Memoir of Richard Dillingham -- 2. Memoir of Calvin Fairbank -- 3. Death and funeral of the author.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from: Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground railroad : being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents. 2nd ed. with appendix. Cincinnati : Robert Clarke & Co., 1880. viii, 3-732 p. : ports. ; 21 cm.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:
System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject:
Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877.
Dillingham, Richard, -1850.
Fairbank, Calvin, 1816-1898.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century.
Quaker abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Quakers > United States > Biography.
Slavery and the church > Society of Friends.
Slavery > Indiana > History > 19th century.
Slavery > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Ohio > History > 19th century.
Society of Friends.
Underground Railroad > Indiana.
Underground Railroad > Ohio.