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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Physical Description:xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.