Gateway to Freedom The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves
by Eric Foner
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 polisher, and a black minister - led a secret network that helped no fewer than 3,000 fugitive slaves from the southern states of America to a new life of liberty in Canada.
HistoryUnited StatesCivil War Period (1850-1877)ModernAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social History
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHEROxford University Press
LENGTH301
LANGUAGEEN
Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography. Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period.
Gateway to Freedom The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves
by Eric Foner
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 polisher, and a black minister - led a secret network that helped no fewer than 3,000 fugitive slaves from the southern states of America to a new life of liberty in Canada.
HistoryUnited StatesCivil War Period (1850-1877)ModernAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social HistorySocial ScienceSlavery
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHEROxford University Press
LENGTH301
LANGUAGEEN
Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography. Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period.
