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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the Underground Railroad Cover Image Book Book
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Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the Underground Railroad

Foner, Eric 1943- (author.).

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.

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  • ISBN: 0393244075 :
  • ISBN: 9780393244076 :
  • Physical Description: xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Subject: Underground Railroad History
Antislavery movements United States History
Slavery United States History
Fugitive slaves United States History

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  • 33 of 34 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Abington Community Library 973.7 FONER (Text) 50687011351825 Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 05/01/2024
Annie Halenbake Ross Library 973.7 Fon (Text) 00130682 ADULT Non-Fiction Available -
Boyertown Community Library 973.7115 FON (Text) 33249021568856 Non-fiction Available -
Cambria County Library 973.7115 F673g (Text) 85131001444778 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Coudersport Public Library 973.7 FON (Text) 30183000637494 Adult Nonfiction Available -
DuBois Public Library 973.7 FONER (Text) 30041001132412 Adult NonFiction Available -
Ellwood City Area Public Library 973.711 Foner (Text)
Memorial: Memorial Books : Carolyn L. Battaglia Given By Mr. & Mrs. Mike Perry.
32102000772190 ECAM Non-Fiction Available -
Fleetwood Area Public Library 973.7115 FON (Text) 33249021404623 Non-fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 973.7115 FONER (Text) 35740634725436 Nonfiction Available -
Glatfelter Memorial Library Adults 973.7 FON Nonfiction (Text) 34216000811754 Adult Area Available -
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