Gateway to Freedom : : the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Book - 2015 973.711 Fo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century / Foner, Eric 3 On Shelf No requests on this item
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Call Number: 973.711 Fo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century / Foner, Eric
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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.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393244076
0393244075
SUBJECTS
Underground Railroad.
Fugitives from slavery -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century.