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How did Levi Coffin influence the development of the abolitionist movement?

O He wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
O He founded a newspaper and wrote stories about enslaved people.
O He fought for voting rights for African Americans.
O He housed enslaved people who escaped on the Underground Railroad.

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During the Civil War, he visited various contraband camps and continued to assist slaves on the Underground Railroad in their search for freedom. Coffin contributed almost $100,000 for the Western Freedman's Relief Society when the war ended, which provided food, clothes, money, and other aid to freshly liberated blacks.

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