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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foner, Eric, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Underground Railroad.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- History.
- United States.
- Slavery.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393244076
- 0393244075
- OCLC:
- 900158156
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