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S behind but the thought of separation so tormented them that they made
an effort to secure their liberty. Upon appealing to their masters for
terms the owners, somewhat moved by compassion, sold them for one half
of their value. White then went West and left four in Chillicothe,
twenty-three in Leesburg and twenty-six in Wayne County, Indiana,
without encountering any material difficulty.[12] Others had thought of
this plan but the Quakers actually carried it out on a small scale. Here
we see again not only their desire to have the Negroes emancipated but
the vital interest of the Quakers in success of the blacks, for members
of this sect not only liberated their slaves but sold out their own
holdings in the South and moved with these freedmen into the North.
Quakers who then lived in free States offered fugitives material
assistance by open and clandestine methods.[13] The most prominent
leader developed by the movement was Levi Coffin, whose daring deeds in
behalf of the fugitives made him the reputed President of the
Underground Railroad. Most of the Quaker settlements of Negroes with
which he was connected were made in what is now Hamilton, Howard, Wayne,
Randolph, Vigo, Gibson, Grant, Rush, and Tipton Counties, Indiana, and
Darke County, Ohio. The promotion of this movement by the Quakers was
well on its way by 1815 and was not materially checked until the fifties
when the operations of the drastic fugitive slave law interfered, and
even then the movement had gained such momentum and the execution of
that mischievous measure had produced in the North so much reaction like
that expressed in the personal liberty laws, that it could not be
stopped. The Negroes found homes in Wes