This person has been called the "president of the Underground Railroad."
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
Levi Coffin
Vestal Coffin
Frederick Douglass
Levi Coffin, a Quaker who aided an estimated 3,000 runaway slaves bound for Canada, was often called the "president of the Underground Railroad." Born in North Carolina in 1789, Coffin moved to Indiana in 1826, becoming a successful merchant. In Newport, Indiana, he established an important "depot" on the Underground Railroad route to Canada. Coffin continued to help freed slaves during and after the Civil War. His cousin, Vestal Coffin, established one of the earliest Underground Railroad "stations" at Guilford, North Carolina, in 1819. Harriet Tubman, herself a runaway slave, was known as "the Moses of the Underground Railroad."
