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Gateway to freedom the hidden history of the underground railroad

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.

Main Author:	Foner, Eric, 1943- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Underground railroad. Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century. Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.

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.
Physical Description:	xiii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780393244076 (hbk.) 0393244075 (hbk.)
Author Notes:	Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography)

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