Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City

Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City

Author: Don Papson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0786466650

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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.


Making a Life, Building a Community

Making a Life, Building a Community

Author: David G. Dalin

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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This book places the city of Hartford, Connecticut within the larger contexts of American social, urban, ethnic, and Jewish history by comparing its unique history to those of New England and other American Jewish communities.


The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

Author: David Dirck Van Tassel

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1206

ISBN-13:

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Clevelanders are rediscovering the richness of their history, and the encyclopedia project has played a vital role in this process. -- Northwest Ohio Quarterly These two volumes clearly establish a standard for encyclopedias devoted to city history and biography. -- Choice Both volumes are interesting to read and are useful reference tools. -- American Reference Books Annual The first edition of this remarkable encyclopedia was published in 1987 to enthusiastic reviews. Out of print for several years, the Encyclopedia is now being reissued in an expanded, two-volume format to commemorate the bicentennial of Cleveland's founding. Volume One, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, contains more than 2000 entries, 150 photographs, maps and charts. Volume Two, the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, with over 1600 entries, is the first major biographical guide to Cleveland published since the 1920s.


Stairway to Empire

Stairway to Empire

Author: Patrick McGreevy

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2009-04-09

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1438425279

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The story of the Erie Canal’s completion and its place in the larger narrative of American modernity and progress.