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.