Don Papson, Tom Calarco

Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City

Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay's closest associate was Louis Napoleon, a free black man who played a major role in the James Kirk and Lemmon cases. For more than two years, Gay kept a record of the fugitives he and Napoleon aided. These never before published records are annotated in this book. Revealing how Gay was drawn into the bitter division between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, the work exposes the private opinions that divided abolitionists. It describes the network of black and white men and women who were vital links in the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a daily reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780786466658
• ISBN-10: 0786466650
• Artikelnr.: 40873445

Autorenporträt

Don Papson was awarded the 2012 Underground Railroad Free Press Prize in Leadership for co-founding the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association and establishing the North Star Underground Railroad Museum. He lives in Plattsburgh, New York, and blogs at www.secretlivesoftheundergroundrailroadinnyc.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by A.J. Williams-Myers
Preface
Introduction
1-Sydney Howard Gay and the Cause
2-Friends of Freedom
3-A Slave Hunt in the Shadow of City Hall
4-Louis Napoleon's Early Life
5-More Fugitives and Challenges
6-Stationmasters
7-Outrages
8-The Case That Made Louis Napoleon Famous
9-Alliances and Misalliances
Annotated Record of Fugitives, 1855- and Later Years
10-Introduction to the Record
11-Gay's Underground Railroad Networks
12-1855
13-1856
14-Addendum to the Record
15-And Still They Come
16-Civil War Years
17-After the Civil War
Appendices
I. Fugitives Passing through Philadelphia
II. Fugitives Sent to Albany
III. Fugitives Sent to Syracuse
IV. Fugitives Passing through Harrisburg
V. Fugitives Sent to Boston and New Bedford
VI. Fugitives Traveling by Sea
VII. Key to New York City Underground Railroad Map
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index