Levi Coffin: The Quaker Abolitionist's Safehouses

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Do you think you would be able to provide safe houses when there was slavery?Levi Coffin and his wife did although it was more Levi Coffin that is remembered because he became a quaker and provided safe houses for slaves.Levi Coffin was influenced in freeing slaves by providing safe houses for slaves.Something a lot of Americans didn’t want to do. Levi Coffin was born on October 28,1798 he is well known for being an abolitionist and providing safe houses like I mentioned before.”During twenty years Coffin helped more than 2,000 slaves reach safety.”(www.waynet.org) That amount was incredible considering that it was very difficult in that period of time.Especially knowing that there could possibly be some time of consequence for him.That was

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