Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City

Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Journalism, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City by Don Papson, Tom Calarco, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Author: Don Papson, Tom Calarco ISBN: 9781476618715
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: January 28, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Don Papson, Tom Calarco
ISBN: 9781476618715
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: January 28, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

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.

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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.

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