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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Eric Foner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-19 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has i
Gateway to Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Eric Foner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner tells the story of how, between 1830 and 1860, three remarkable men from New York city - a journalist, a furniture p
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Eric Foner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-26 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review,
On Slavery's Border
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Diane Mutti Burke
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterpr
Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad
Language: en
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Authors: Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the U