Coffin Underground
Author | : Gwendoline Butler |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1989-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312310714 |
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Author | : Gwendoline Butler |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1989-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312310714 |
Author | : Gwenyth Swain |
Publisher | : LernerClassroom |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 157505552X |
Presents the biography of a Quaker man from North Carolina whose fearless work on the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio helped thousands of men and women escape the cruelty of slavery. Reprint.
Author | : Charles Ludwig |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2004-10-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1592449190 |
'Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad' recreates the human drama, pathos, excitement, and danger surrounding the attempts of American blacks in the 1800s to find release from oppression in the South. With cruelty to slaves indelibly impressed on his mind as a child, young Levi Coffin, a Quaker, was determined to spend his life improving their lot. In spite of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, he took seriously the admonition of Deuteronomy 23:15: Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. Levi appealed to the consciences of fellow Quakers. He and his wife, Catherine, provided refuge, food, and moral support in their home during several decades for a stream of some 3,000 runaways headed for Canada. One of the slaves the Coffins assisted, Eliza Harris, became the leading character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. Frustrated by Coffin's successful efforts to help fugitives elude recapture, slave-hunters nicknamed him President of the Underground Railroad. The network of cooperative homes became known as stations or depots, the wagons as trains, the drivers as brakemen or firemen, and the hosts along the way as stationmasters or conductors. This book presents Levi Coffin's experiences in a way that will capture the interest and admiration of young and old alike.
Author | : Levi Coffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gwendolin Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Coffin, John (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Willene Hendrick |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461741254 |
Published to coincide with Black History Month and the opening of the new Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Fleeing for Freedom includes selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. George and Willene Hendrick have chosen a broad range of stories to reflect the strategies, tactics, heartbreak, and dangers—for both the slaves and the "conductors"—of the secret network. In their Introduction, they provide basic information about the scope and workings of the Underground Railroad and its impact on slaves, slaveholders, and the Northern abolitionist societies that were so heavily involved. Fleeing for Freedom offers gripping personal accounts of one of the great collaborations between whites and blacks in American history. With 15 black-and-white engravings and line drawings.
Author | : Levi Coffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gwenyth Swain |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0822589125 |
Growing up in a Quaker family in the South in 1830, Levi Coffin did not support slavery, but he was exposed to its atrocities. Convinced that every person deserved to be free, Levi began helping slaves escape to the North along the Underground Railroad, and during the following 40 years he was able to help over 3,000 people find freedom.
Author | : Levi Coffin |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 2024-06-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385514118 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author | : Kathlyn M. Cooney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108910831 |
This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type – the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin – how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might have been used again for another dead person. Using evidence from Deir el Medina, we will move through time from the initial agreement between the craftsman and the seller, to the construction of the object by a carpenter, to the plastering and painting of the coffin by a draftsman, to the sale of the object, to its ritual use in funerary activities, to its deposit in a burial chamber, and, briefly, to its possible reuse.