Levi Coffin

The first thing that caught my attention about the Indiana State Museum was that the museum is basically divided into two parts. It is divided into the natural history side and the cultural history side. I found this very interesting, as I had just assumed that everything in the museum was imported, categorized, and stored in similar manors. When you think about it, it makes sense to divide the museum into two parts as it allows the staff members of the two teams to be specialized experts in…

Underground Railroad, and the members of the church helped the slaves (53). Coffin explains in his article “The Underground Railroad” how, *incidentally, as the runaway slaves rested from their long journey to get to the Underground Railroad, the others made sure the transportations’ ready to go for the next journey. The travel time took up from twenty to thirty miles to arrive (2). Many of the whites feared the punishment they would have to face was too much of a risk. Many whites wanted to…

slaves were known as conductors or stockholders. Hariet Tubman was a free slave that helped more like her escape. She reportedly made 19 return trips back to the south to rescue slaves. She independently saved as many as 300 lives. Another Quaker, Levi Coffin saved 3000 slaves independently. Using the railroad over one hundred thousand slaves were stolen from the south over the course of forty years. The Underground Railroad was one of the most brave and courageous acts of the Abolitionist…

Have you ever been treated unfairly or been hurt for no reason? Well that was what slaves lives were like before the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad led to the Civil War and it was a series of safe houses and routes for Southern slaves to get to the Northern Free states. Over 100,000 slaves escaped from the south and got a new and better life. “Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was…

Maritza Arellano In Africa, black traders kidnapped and captured their own people so they could be sold in fairs to Europeans. Purchased slaves were on board the ship the same day. On board, slaves would be handcuffed against each other and they separated by gender. Slaves traveled in poor conditions, they lay next to each other and were fed twice a day. Slaves who died during their voyage were thrown overboard. Nearly arrived Africans were sad and depressed when arriving in the New World.…

The Underground Railroad is thought to of begun around the late 18th century. The Underground Railroad was actually not underground nor was it a railroad. It was a vast network of people helping convict slaves escape to the “promise land,” or Canada. Consisting of many individuals, some whites but predominately black, aided these slaves through the networks (history.com). George Washington, a slave owner, complained that one of his runaway slaves was helped by a “society of Quakers, formed for…

Coffin said it was very rare when a week passed without someone coming to use the railroad (Coffin). Tubman, who was a slave herself, ran away when she found out that she was going to be sold. Over time, there was a $40,000 reward for her recapture while the bounty was on her head, she made more than…

As slavery expanded throughout the antebellum South, slaveholders experienced a growing phenomenon of slaves running away. Fugitive slaves were slaves who escaped their owner and left without authorization, commonly heading north towards the free states and Canada. Fugitive slaves and their experiences were diverse from their motivations to their characteristics. No single fugitive faced the same challenges and there was not set way to face these challenges, although there were common ways of…

Mount Herzl (Har Herzl in Hebrew) also known as Har haZikaron, “the Mountain of Memory” is an 834 meter hill located on the outskirts of West Jerusalem. It is considered to be one of the highest points in Jerusalem offering a 360 degree view of the Holy City. It was named after the founder of the modern Zionism, Theodore Herzl, who dedicated his life to the idea of Jewish self determination and the return of the Jews to their historic homeland. In 1896 Herzl wrote a pamphlet called "The Jewish…

as well. White supporters, such as Lloyd Garrison who was an active member of the American Colonization Society and a famous antislavery journalist, also made huge impacts on ending slavery. Free Blacks, such as Fredrick Douglas, John Fairfield, Levi Coffin and Harriet Tubman helped thousands, 40,000 to 100,000, slaves escape to freedom by creating and using the Underground Railroad. The more successful the Underground Railroad became, the more the Northern Sates supported Abolitionism.…