More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with ...
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More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North's largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city's underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence-including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York-Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring-full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage-and significant-the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; Very Good Condition-May show some limited signs of wear and may have a remainder mark. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.
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Fair. A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Dust jacket may be missing. Pages can include considerable highlighting markings writing but cannot obscure the text. May be an Ex-lib. copy and have standard library stamps and or stickers. May NOT include discs or access code or other supplemental material. We ship Monday-Saturday and respond to inquiries within 24 hours.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very good condition, dust cover intact, no marks or writing
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket Retired LIbrary Book in Good Condition. Except for minimal lib marks, book and jacket have almost no wear; tight, solid and square binding; pages very clean, no markings of any kind. The author liberates the history of the underground railroad from the twin plaques of mythology and cynicism. Using an extraordinary little known document, he tells of slavery living on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition--he even tell of slave-catchers and gangs of kidnappers roaming the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. The New York Vigiligance Committee formed in 1935 developd networks of anti-slavery resistance in New York known as the underground railroad--these operated in secrecy due to hostile laws, courrts and politicians. The city's underground railroad agents helped more than 3, 000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830-1860. This is largely an unknown part of American history. 301 pages with Notes and Index. 6.4 x 9.5 inches. 2015, W W Norton & Company, New York/London.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book First edition, first printing, hard cover. Maps. Notes. Index. Near fine with spine ends pushed, in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. NOT price-clipped. NOT ex-library. NOT a remainder. "Building on fresh evidence-including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York-Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history."
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As New. No Dust Jacket. As New, Text is like new, Light wear to cover from storage. Otherwise, As New. No Dust Jacket 305 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 3. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. ISBN: 0393244075. ISBN/EAN: 9780393244076. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561056848.
