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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad  Cover Image Book Book

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

Foner, Eric, 1943- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780393244076 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 0393244075 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Underground railroad.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.

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Orford Free Library A 973 FON 34446000074570 Adult nonfiction Available -


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