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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.

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. Cincinnati, Ohio : Western Tract Society, [1876]
  2. ©1876.
Author
  1. Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877

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Additional authors
  1. Western Tract and Book Society, publisher.
Description
  1. viii, 712 pages, [2] leaves of plates : 2 portraits; 20 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877
  2. Dillingham, Richard, -1850
  3. Fairbank, Calvin, 1816-1898
  4. Underground Railroad
  5. Underground railroad > Indiana
  6. Underground Railroad > Ohio
  7. Antislavery movements > United States
  8. Fugitive slaves > United States
  9. Slavery > United States
  10. Slavery > Indiana
  11. Slavery > Ohio
  12. Abolitionists > United States > Biography
  13. Quaker abolitionists > United States > Biography
  14. Quakers > United States > Biography
Call number
  1. Sc 326.973F-C (Coffin, L. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin. 1876)
Note
  1. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by Levi Coffin, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
Indexed in (note)
  1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Source (note)
  1. Arthur A. Schomburg;
Provenance (note)
  1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Author
  1. Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877, author.
Title
  1. 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.
Publisher
  1. Cincinnati, Ohio : Western Tract Society, [1876]
Copyright date
  1. ©1876.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Indexed in:
  1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 2500
Provenance
  1. Copy in Sc 326.973F-C (accession no. B520693) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Source
  1. Sc 326.973F-C Purchase; Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926; B520693.
Connect to:
  1. Full text available via HathiTrust (Library of Congress copy)
Added author
  1. Western Tract and Book Society, publisher.
  2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
LCCN
  1. 13005748 //r87
Research call number
  1. Sc 326.973F-C (Coffin, L. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin. 1876)
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