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 ...

Notable participants of the Underground Railroad included John Fairfield, the son of a slaveholding family who facilitated many escapes, Levi Coffin who led more than 3,000 slaves to freedom and ...

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 people ...