Gateway to Freedom
Subtitle: the hidden history of the underground railroad
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780393244076
Description: 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.
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