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Author Foner, Eric, 1943- author.
Title Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of America's fugitive slaves / Eric Foner.
Publisher Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition First edition.


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 Wilberforce Institute  E 450 F6  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT
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Descript xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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Edition First edition.
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.
ISBN 9780198737902 hardback
0198737904 hardback
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Author Foner, Eric, 1943- author.
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad -- New York (State) -- New York.
Vigilance committees -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Descript xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Edition First edition.
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.
ISBN 9780198737902 hardback
0198737904 hardback
Author Foner, Eric, 1943- author.
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad -- New York (State) -- New York.
Vigilance committees -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  E 450 F6  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad -- New York (State) -- New York.
Vigilance committees -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Descript xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
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.
ISBN 9780198737902 hardback
0198737904 hardback
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