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"America's favorite Quaker storyteller explores the terrain of faith and doubt as shaped by family, church, and young love, finding his way to a less convenient but fully formed adult spirituality. Most of us grow up taking in whole belief systems with our mother's milk, only to discover later that what we received as being certain is actually nothing like it. And then we're faced with a choice-retreat to spiritual security and the community that...
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Levi Coffin and his wife Catherine risked their lives helping thousands of men, women, and children escape from slavery in Kentucky and further south. This edited and abridged edition of Coffin's "Reminiscences" includes hundreds of dramatic stories told by the former slaves as they passed through his home, following the northern star to freedom.
9) The Quakers
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Denominations in America volume no. 3
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1988.
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1380L
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English
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[2001]
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Biography of the reputed President of the Underground Railroad. Begins briefy with Levi Coffin's early efforts against slavery in North Carolina and Indiana. The focus is on Coffin's abolitionist activities in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1847 through the Civil War and his work on behalf of freed blacks after the war.
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