
Gateway to Freedom
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- Cover
- Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America's Fugitive Slaves
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps and Illustr Ations
- 1: Introduction: Rethinking the Underground railroad
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- III
- 2: Slavery and Freedom in New York
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- 3: Origins of the Underground Railroad: The New York Vigilance committee
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- 4: A Patchwork system: The underground railroad in the 1840s
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- 5: The fugitive slave law and the crisis of the Black Community
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- III
- IV
- 6: The Metropolitan Corridor: The underground railroad in the 1850s
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- IV
- 7: The Record of Fugitives: An account of runaway slaves in the 1850s
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- 8: The End of the Underground Railroad
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- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Slavery and Freedom in New York
- 3. The New York Vigilance Committee
- 4. A Patchwork System
- 5. The Fugitive Slave Law and the Crisis of the Black Community
- 6. The Metropolitan Corridor
- 7. The Record of Fugitives
- 8. The End of the Underground Railroad
- Index
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