Gateway to Freedom : The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad /
Foner, Eric, 1943-,
Gateway to Freedom : The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad / Eric Foner. - First Edition. - xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.
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.
0393244075 9780393244076 (hbk.)
2014036993
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Fugitive slaves--History--United States--19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Gateway to Freedom : The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad / Eric Foner. - First Edition. - xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.
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.
0393244075 9780393244076 (hbk.)
2014036993
Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Fugitive slaves--History--United States--19th century.
Underground Railroad.