Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393244076 (hardcover)
  • 0393244075 (hardcover)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 450 .F66 2015
Contents:
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.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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