Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786466650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorDon 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 Cincinnati, Ohio. He lives in Plattsburgh, New York. . He was awarded the 2008 Underground Railroad Free Press Prize for advancing the knowledge and study of the Underground Railroad. Tom Calarco is a professional writer whose antislavery research is widely recognized
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. These never before published records are annotated in this book. 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.. 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. For more than two years, Gay kept a record of the fugitives he and Napoleon aided. Gay's closest associate was Louis Napoleon, a free black man who played a major role in the James Kirk and Lemmon cases
at great risk to his life and freedom This is a very important addition to the growing scholarship on the Underground Railroad. Don Papson and Tom Calarco – long time Underground Railroad history experts – spent years collecting documentation for this much needed history of one of the most important stations along the Eastern Underground Railroad. Two long-forgotten Underground Railroad agents in New York Cit. "The Underground Railroad a Secret? Not if you look." according to Christopher Densmore. For many years, the history of the Underground Railroad seemed have been lost. It was a clandestine operation, and serious researchers avoided the topic because solid source material did not exist. Or did it? The Underground Railroad also appeared to be the preserve of local "historians" who recorded as fact stories of secret hiding places and tunnels, often stories that had no basis. READERS’ RAVES “I love it! ” -Dr hodc READERS’ RAVES“I love it!” -Dr. Kate Larson, Simmons College, author of 2003 biography of Harriet Tubman, Bound for the Promised Land“Your book is superior to all the books I’ve read on the Underground Railroad.” -Frank Newton, Maryland UGRR Maritime Researcher“It's a keeper…I like the very engaging way in which it is written…I
. Tom Calarco is a professional writer whose antislavery research is widely recognized. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. He lives in Plattsburgh, New York. He was awarded the 2008 Underground Railroad Free Press Prize for advancing the knowledge and study of the Underground Railroad. Don Papson was awarded the 2012 Underground Railroad Free Press Prize in L