Levi Coffin Biography

Levi Coffin biography

Quick Facts

NAME: Levi Coffin
OCCUPATION: Activist
BIRTH DATE: October 28, 1798
DEATH DATE: September 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH: New Lawn, North Carolina
PLACE OF DEATH: Cincinnati, Ohio

Best Known For

Levi Coffin was an American abolitionist who assisted thousands of runaway slaves on their flight to freedom.

Quiz

Think you know about Biography?

Answer questions and see how you rank against other players.

Play Now

Print Cite This

Levi Coffin

APA Style

Levi Coffin. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 08:53, May 21, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088.

Harvard Style

Levi Coffin. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088 [Accessed 21 May 2013].

MLA Style

"Levi Coffin." 2013. The Biography Channel website. May 21 2013, 08:53 http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088.

MHRA Style

"Levi Coffin," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088 [accessed May 21, 2013].

Chicago Style

"Levi Coffin," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088 (accessed May 21, 2013).

CBE/CSE Style

Levi Coffin [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 21] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088.

Bluebook Style

Levi Coffin, http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088 (last visited May 21, 2013).

AMA Style

Levi Coffin. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/levi-coffin-39088. Accessed May 21, 2013.

Profile

When Levi Coffin moved to Newport, Indiana, in 1826, he discovered he was on a route of the Underground Railroad, by which fugitive slaves made their way from the South to Canada. Coffin then made his home into a depot, and he funneled much of the wealth that he was acquiring as a prosperous merchant into hiding and then conveying more than 3,000 “passengers” on their northern journey.