01863cam a2200337 i 4500 296085930 TxAuBib 20150203120000.0 140526s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014036993 9780393244076 0393244075 eng rda TxAuBib rda Foner, Eric, 1943- Gateway to freedom [BOOK] : the hidden history of the underground railroad / Eric Foner. Hidden history of the underground railroad. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. 20150203. Slavery America History. Fugitives from slavery United States History 19th century. Underground Railroad. Antislavery movements United States History 19th century.