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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393244076 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xiii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century. Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 19th century. Underground railroad. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 973.7115 Fon | 31681002496859 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traces the workings of the underground railroad in slave-dependent New York by three lesser-known heroes who coordinated with black dockworkers and counterparts in other states to help thousands of fugitive slaves between 1830 and 1860. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Fiery Trail . - Baker & Taylor
Traces the workings of the Underground Railroad in slave-dependent New York by three heroes who coordinated with black dockworkers and counterparts in other states to help thousands of fugitive slaves between 1830 and 1860. - Book News
Foner presents students, academics, and general-interest readers with a fresh investigation of the Underground Railroad based on new evidence, including the detailed records kept by Sydney Howard Gay, a primary organizer of the path to freedom in the North. The author has organized the main body of his text in eight chapters devoted to slavery and freedom in New York, the origins of the Underground Railroad, the fugitive slave and the crisis of the black community, and other related subjects. Eric Foner is a faculty member of Columbia University, New York, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - WW Norton
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislaveryactivists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. - WW Norton
More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the Northâs largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery.To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the cityâs underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood.Building on fresh evidenceâincluding a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New YorkâFoner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiringâfull of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stageâand significantâthe controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.
