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Levi Coffin, Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents, Documenting the American South, Chapel Hill: UNC electronic version, 2001

Addison Coffin, Life and Travels of Addison Coffin, Written by Himself, Cleveland, Ohio, William G. Hubbard, 1897

Fergus Bordewich, Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, Amistad, 2005

Jeffrey R. Brackett, The Negro in Maryland, A Study of the Institution of Slavery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1889

Addison Coffin, Life and Travels of Addison Coffin, Written by Himself, Cleveland, Ohio, William G. Hubbard, 1897

Albert J. Raboteau. Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans, Oxford University Press, 2001

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Hiram H. Hilty.  Toward freedom for all: North Carolina Quakers and slavery. Richmond, Ind: Friends United Press.1984

James Redpath and John R. MacKivigan. The Roving Editor or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States.

Underground Railroad in Guilford College Woods