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Gateway to Freedom : The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191057816
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gateway to FreedomDDC classification:
  • 973.7/115
LOC classification:
  • E449 -- .F664 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustr Ations -- 1: Introduction: Rethinking the Underground railroad -- I -- II -- III -- 2: Slavery and Freedom in New York -- I -- II -- 3: Origins of the Underground Railroad: The New York Vigilance committee -- I -- II -- 4: A Patchwork system: The underground railroad in the 1840s -- I -- II -- 5: The fugitive slave law and the crisis of the Black Community -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 6: The Metropolitan Corridor: The underground railroad in the 1850s -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 7: The Record of Fugitives: An account of runaway slaves in the 1850s -- I -- II -- 8: The End of the Underground Railroad -- I -- II -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Slavery and Freedom in New York -- 3. The New York Vigilance Committee -- 4. A Patchwork System -- 5. The Fugitive Slave Law and the Crisis of the Black Community -- 6. The Metropolitan Corridor -- 7. The Record of Fugitives -- 8. The End of the Underground Railroad -- Index.
Summary: The story of how three remarkable New Yorkers helped over 3000 African American slaves escape to a life of liberty in Canada, in the decades before the American Civil War.
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Cover -- Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustr Ations -- 1: Introduction: Rethinking the Underground railroad -- I -- II -- III -- 2: Slavery and Freedom in New York -- I -- II -- 3: Origins of the Underground Railroad: The New York Vigilance committee -- I -- II -- 4: A Patchwork system: The underground railroad in the 1840s -- I -- II -- 5: The fugitive slave law and the crisis of the Black Community -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 6: The Metropolitan Corridor: The underground railroad in the 1850s -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- 7: The Record of Fugitives: An account of runaway slaves in the 1850s -- I -- II -- 8: The End of the Underground Railroad -- I -- II -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Slavery and Freedom in New York -- 3. The New York Vigilance Committee -- 4. A Patchwork System -- 5. The Fugitive Slave Law and the Crisis of the Black Community -- 6. The Metropolitan Corridor -- 7. The Record of Fugitives -- 8. The End of the Underground Railroad -- Index.

The story of how three remarkable New Yorkers helped over 3000 African American slaves escape to a life of liberty in Canada, in the decades before the American Civil War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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