{"id":317,"date":"2009-03-12T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-03-12T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T17:21:17","slug":"president-of-the-underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/president-of-the-underground-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"President of the Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/covers\/underground.jpg\" alt=\"President of the Underground Railroad\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"210\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Levi Coffin&#8217;s family was a perfectly normal Southern farm family, except for one thing. They didn&#8217;t own slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Levi was surrounded by the cruelty of slavery. The animals on his farm were treated much better than most slaves. Levi wondered if he would ever be old enough or brave enough to help slaves gain freedom.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1830s, he had begun hiding runaway slaves and directing them to other safe houses further north. Soon his home was part of a network of houses known as the Underground Railroad, and Levi had earned the nickname &#8220;President of the Underground Railroad.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>64 pages. Carolrhoda Books. Gwenyth Swain.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"green\">For more details as well as the option to buy:<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/op32.shtml\">President of the Underground Railroad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levi Coffin&#8217;s family was a perfectly normal Southern farm family, except for one thing. They didn&#8217;t own slaves. Still, Levi was surrounded by the cruelty of slavery. The animals on his farm were treated much better than most slaves. Levi wondered if he would ever be old enough or brave enough to help slaves gain [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-products"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-57","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}