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Joseph Carter Corbin

1833–1911

United States

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Joseph Carter Corbin (March 26, 1833 – January 9, 1911) was an American journalist and educator. Before the abolition of slavery, he was a journalist, teacher, and conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Kentucky. After the American Civil War, he moved to Arkansas where he served as superintendent of public schools from 1873 to 1874.

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