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Author Foner, Eric, 1943- author.

Title Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the Underground Railroad / Eric Foner.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
©2015
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1616139~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  973.7115 FON    AVAILABLE
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Description xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.
Contents Introduction: Re-thinking the Underground Railroad -- Slavery and freedom in New York -- Origins of the Underground Railroad: The New York Vigilence 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 runawaay 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.
Subject Underground Railroad -- History.
Antislavery movements -- History.
Slavery -- History.
Fugitive slaves -- History.
ISBN 9780393244076
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