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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad Cover Image Book Book

Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad

Foner, Eric 1943- (author.).

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780393244076
  • ISBN: 0393244075
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Genre: History.

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      Headquarters Library 		973.711 FONER, ERIC ( Send Text)
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