Experience the Levi and Catharine Coffin home by candlelight and hear stories highlighting the experiences of freedom-seekers who chose to risk everything to escape slavery. Explore why wintertime was a common season for escapes with longer nights providing a chance to travel farther in a day and less chance of being detected. Learn why some freedom-seekers chose to stay in Fountain City before moving further north and find out how free Blacks were just as instrumental to the Underground Railroad as white conductors.