402p. A light blue softcover book in near-fine condition. Like-new apart from a former owner's private library stamps on endpapers and title page. Otherwise clean and tight. Coffin, a Quaker abolitionist, helped many escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. In this autobiography, he gives many accounts of escapees he aided. Contains a section of black and white photographs. Seller Inventory # 163221

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Title: REMINISCENCES OF LEVI COFFIN: The Reputed ...

Publisher: Friends United Press, Richmond, IN

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Paperback

Edition: 2nd Printing.

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Levi Coffin, noted as "The President of the Underground Railroad," writes about his adventures and exploits during that daring time prior to and during the Civil War. This edition has been abridged and edited for modern readers.

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Ben Richmond is the former editor of Quaker Life magazine and a minister in Indiana Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. His introduction places Coffin in the wider abolitionist movement and provides background on the Quaker faith thata motivated Friends endeavors to find a nonviolent solution to the injustice of slavery. This edition of Levi Coffin's Reminiscences has been edited and abridged to provide hours of entertaining family reading.

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