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oswaldactedalone

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1. I work about a mile from this location.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Feb 17, 2019, 10:22 PM

Feb 2019

What the Quakers in general and the Coffins more specifically did to help slaves is one of the great unsung stories in American history. It's a story that wasn't in the history books of the '60s and '70s.

As an aside, I knew one of the descendants of the Coffins, a great American Legion and College Baseball pitcher in the late '60s and early '70s.

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