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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad
Author
Title
Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner.
ISBN
9780393244076
0393244075
Edition
First Edition.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Physical Description
xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner relates the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 12, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.
Contents
Rethinking the underground railroad
Slavery and freedom in New York
Origins of the underground railroad : the New York Vigilance Committee
A patchwork system : the underground railroad in the 1840s
The Fugitive Slave Law and the crisis of the Black community
The metropolitan corridor : the underground railroad in the 1850s
The record of fugitives : an account of runaway slaves in the 1850s
The end of the underground railroad.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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