Gateway to Freedom The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Author
Published Location
New York, NY
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Years
2015
Physical Description
Hardcover 301 Pages with index
Language
English
Description
Introduction: 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 ó The record of fugitives: an account of runaway slaves in the 1850s -- The end of the underground railroad
Provenance: Collection
Object Topic
History US Slavery
ISBN
9780393244076
LCCN
2014036993
Object ID
B0035
Call Number
E450 .F66 2015
Location
Education Office
