Life and Travels of Addison Coffin: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Life and Travels of Addison Coffin: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Author: Addison Coffin
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1897-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

From 1819, the Coffin family was involved in the Underground Railroad, risking their lives and freedom assisting African-Americans to escape slavery. Addison Coffin was born in 1822 and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad at an early age. His cousin, Levi Coffin was a well-known abolitionist and Addison's brothers were also conductors. An almost-forgotten hero of the 19th century, Coffin tells his tale here, first published in 1897. Addison Coffin spent a lifetime working for the end of slavery, then women's suffrage and temperance. Along the way, he traveled the world and writes about his trips across America, Europe, and Mexico. For the first time, this long-out-of-print book is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

Life and Travels of Addison Coffin

Life and Travels of Addison Coffin
Author: Addison Coffin
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2015-02-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781508550396

Written by the man himself. Addison Coffin, and his wife, saved countless slaves while putting their own lives on the line. Soon he became known as The Conductor of the Underground Railroad!

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 847
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317454162

Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.

Annual Editions: American History, Volume 1

Annual Editions: American History, Volume 1
Author: Robert James Maddox
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2006-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780073516004

[The book is] designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by historians, educators, researchers and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today's important topics in the study of American history.-Back cover.

The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
Author: Wilbur Henry Siebert
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-09
Genre: Fugitive slaves
ISBN: 9781522792444

First published in 1898, this comprehensive history was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and a large number of other firsthand accounts. Together, they shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to runaway slaves, including the degree of formal organization within the movement, methods of procedure, geographical range, leadership roles, the effectiveness of Canadian settlements, and the attitudes of courts and communities toward former slaves.

Through Darkness to Light

Through Darkness to Light
Author: Jeanine Michna-Bales
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1616896094

They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.