Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City
Subtitle: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780786466658
Subjects: Underground railroad; Fugitive slaves; Antislavery movements, united states; Abolitionists; African americans, new york (state), new york; New york (n.y.), intellectual life; New york (n.y.), history; New york (n.y.), biography
Description: "Revealing how Gay was drawn into the bitter division between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, the work exposes the private opinions that divided abolitionists. It describes the network of black and white men and women who were vital links in the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a daily reality"--