Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner.
Foner, Eric, 1943-
2015
E450 .F66 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner.
Author Foner, Eric, 1943-
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780393244076 (hardcover)
0393244075 (hardcover)
Published New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Language English
Description xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number E450 .F66 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7/115
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Introduction: 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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