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The dramatic account of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied regulations to help them reach independence. They may be little known to background: Sydney Howard Gay, an abolitionist magazine editor; Louis Napoleon, a furniture polisher; Charles B. Ray, a black minister. At great risk they operated the Underground Railroad in NY, a city whose businesses, banks, and politics were deeply enmeshed in the slave market. In top secret coordination with black dockworkers who alerted these to the entrance of fugitives and with counterparts in Norfolk, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Albany, and Syracuse, underground-railroad operatives in NY helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach independence between 1830 and 1860. Their defiance of the notorious Fugitive Slave Laws swollen the South. White and black, educated and illiterate, they were heroic numbers in the ongoing have difficulty between slavery and independence. Making fantastic use of fresh facts - including the meticulous record of slave rescues secretly stored by Gay - Eric Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping background.
