GATEWAY TO FREEDOM: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.
by Foner, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393244075
- ISBN 13
- 9780393244076
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About This Item
New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2015). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Based in part on a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers of the Underground Railroad in New York City, this is a fresh look at the history of this organization by an award-winning writer, including accounts of slavery living on commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution, traveling with owners doing business in New York City. Slave-catchers and gangs of kidnappers also roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. The New York Vigiligance Committee formed in 1935 developd networks of anti-slavery resistance in New York known as the underground railroad, which operated in secrecy due to hostile laws.Illustrated with maps and photographs. Extensive notes, index. xii, [2], 301 pp.
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- 89010
- Title
- GATEWAY TO FREEDOM: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.
- Author
- Foner, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393244075
- ISBN 13
- 9780393244076
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2015)
- Keywords
- new york city, fugitive slaves, slave catchers, american history,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Slavery Abolition Reconstruction;
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