Gateway to Freedom
Subtitle: the hidden history of the underground railroad
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780393352191
Table of contents: title: Introduction: rethinking the underground railroad; title: Slavery and freedom in New York; title: Origins of the underground railroad: The New York Vigilance Committee; title: A patchwork system: the underground railroad in the 1840s; title: The Fugitive Slave Law and the crisis of the Black community; title: The metropolitan corridor: the underground railroad in the 1850s; title: The record of fugitives: an account of runaway slaves in the 1850s; title: The end of the underground railroad