
The Underground Railroad | The Light of Freedom | 1
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Deportation to Africa and the Resistance of Black Americans
This chapter explores the merger of the Manumission Society and the American Colonization Society, the rejection of this idea by most black Americans, and the story of Levi and Vestal Coffin helping a free black man escape. It also discusses the conflict over the admission of Missouri as a slave state and the failure of the Missouri Compromise, and concludes with the coffins hiding fugitive slaves on their farm and their worries about recapture.
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