<A HREF="http://www.civilwar.com/linksrr.htm">Click here: Civil War Links - Underground Railroad</A> North Carolina's Underground Railroad Some 50,000 North Carolinians left the state and moved to Ohio or Indiana in protest to slavery during the thirty years before the Civil War is not widely known. As the frustration with more restrictive and harsh laws over slaves and slave owning were passed, some Quakers, like Levi Coffin, began to illegally assist escaping slaves to flee the state. http://www.civilwar.com/linksrr.htm Bright Star