TY - BOOK AU - Foner,Eric TI - Gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the underground railroad SN - 9780393244076 (hardcover) AV - E450 .F66 2015 U1 - 973.7/115 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Company KW - Underground Railroad KW - Fugitive slaves KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Antislavery movements N1 - 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 ER -