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The story of how three remarkable New Yorkers helped over 3000 African American slaves escape to a life of liberty in Canada, in the decades before the American Civil War
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Slavery, Freedom, and Fugitive Slaves in New York City to 1840
- 3: New York's Two Stations on the Underground Railroad
- 4: The Fugitive Slave Act in New York
- 5: The Record of Fugitives
- 6: And the War Came
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
About the author
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and one of the United States' most prominent historians. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy, he has held visiting professorships at both Oxford and Cambridge universities, as well as at Queen Mary University of London and Moscow State University. His publications include
Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983), the multi-award-winning
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988), and
The Story of American Freedom (1998).
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010) was awarded, amongst others, both the Bancroft Prize and the Lincoln Prize, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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The story of how three remarkable New Yorkers helped over 3000 African American slaves escape to a life of liberty in Canada, in the decades before the American Civil War
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