Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground ...
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground ...
Levi Coffin
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At supper the landlord seated us all at the table, except the mulatto wo- man, who, he intended, should eat with the colored ^servants. After the meal was over, I told him that he was quite partial, to admit a slave to the public table and exclude a free woman. He was much astonished and could not believe that the girl was a slave. "Why," he said; ''she is white, perfectly white." "That may be," I replied; "but she is neverthe- Digitized by Google HID IN A STRA W PILK 203 less a slave. Color is... no protection in the South^ The landlord then acknowledged the inconsist- ency of his conduct, and we enjoyed the joke very much. At another time when I was in the city accom- . panied by my wife and daughter, Hiram S. Gillmore, a noted abolitionist and one of my particular friends, asked me if I knew of any person in from the country with a wagon who would take a fugitive slave girl out to a place of safety. He then gave me the outlines of her story. She h^ come from Boone County, Kentucky, having run away because she learned that she was to be sold to the far South,.
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