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Gateway to Freedom : The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Title: Gateway to Freedom : The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad / Eric Foner.
Author: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Publication: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]

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Description

xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

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.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 15-564

ISBN

0393244075 (hbk.)
9780393244076 (hbk.)

LCCN

2014036993

OCLC

900158156

Author

Foner, Eric, 1943- author.

Title

Gateway to Freedom : The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad / Eric Foner.

Publisher

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]

Edition

First Edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-564

IEC 15-4108

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