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

By:

Foner, Eric, 1943-

Publisher: 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)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.7/115 23

LOC classification:

E450 .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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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