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Edition
First Edition.
Description
xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-275) and index.
Contents
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.
Summary
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.
