Levi Coffin

In this biography of the Levi Coffin, Mary Ann Yanessa tells yesterday's story and raises questions for today. With a brief look at Levi Coffin's early efforts against slavery in North Carolina and later in Newport (now Fountain City), Indiana, the book's major focus is on Coffin's abolitionist activities in Cincinnati from 1847 through the Civil War as well as his work on behalf of formerly enslaved people after the war.