Levi Coffin had just moved to Newport, Indiana, an ideal location in which to help fugitive slaves. Despite being born and raised in the slave state of North Carolina, Coffin was an adamant opponent ...

Fountain City, Indiana — So many African Americans fleeing slavery in the mid-19 th century passed through Levi and Catharine Coffin’s Indiana home that it became known as the “Grand Central Station ...

Levi and Catharine Coffin helped more than 1,000 enslaved individuals move toward freedom on the Underground Railroad by providing a refuge at their home in Fountain City, Indiana, and later, ...

In the small Indiana town of Fountain City, between Indianapolis and Dayton, Ohio, an unassuming brick house once helped change the course of hundreds of lives, providing an escape to freedom for ...

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro, N.Y. will induct four new members on Saturday, Oct. 19. The inductees include a husband-and-wife team who helped thousands escape slavery ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A new Forever stamp is featuring a Hoosier who helped more than 1,000 people escape slavery through the Underground Railroad. The Levi and Catharine Coffin State Historic Site, in ...

"The reputed president of the underground railroad ; Being a brief history of the laborers of a life time in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives who gained their freedom ...

click image for close-up Around 1893, American artist Charles T. Webber painted The Underground Railroad, as a tribute to the work of abolitionists earlier in the century. The painting shows fugitive ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana woman was honored Thursday with a new Forever stamp commemorating her efforts to help thousands of enslaved men and women find their way to freedom through the Underground ...