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Title Gateway to freedom [electronic resource eBook] : the hidden history of America's fugitive slaves / Eric Foner.


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.
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.
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Format: Adobe EPUB eBook.
Format: Kindle Book.
Format: OverDrive Read.
Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle.
Other edition Print version: Foner, Eric, 1943- author. Gateway to freedom 9780198737902
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Vigilance committees -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Genre Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9780393244380
STANDARD # 36A77184-D124-4075-A1B6-FECD1E38543D OverDrive