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Author Foner, Eric, 1943- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.7115 FONER    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  973.711 FONER    Check Shelf
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Edition First Edition.
Description xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.
Contents 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.
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.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
United States.
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9780393244076 (hardback)
0393244075 (hardback)
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