Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of America's fugitive slaves /

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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Vigilance committees > United States > History > 19th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Antislavery movements
Underground Railroad
Vigilance committees
War > Causes
History.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rethinking the underground railroad
  • Slavery and freedom in New York
  • 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 record of fugitives
  • The end of the underground railroad.

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