Gateway to Freedom
The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First Edition.
Description: xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780393244076
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Fon | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.