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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.
Table of 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.

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