Hanover Library CatalogueGateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner.
Publication details: New York , W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., maps, portraits, photographs ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780393244076
- Hidden history of the underground railroad
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900 - 999 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | 973.71 FONE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906000985524 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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