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2015.
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English
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They are little known to history: Sydney Howard Gay, an abolitionist newspaper editor; Louis Napoleon, a furniture polisher; Charles B. Ray, a black minister. At great risk they operated the underground railroad in New York, a city whose businesses, banks, and politics were deeply enmeshed in the slave economy. In secret coordination with black dockworkers who alerted them to the arrival of fugitives and with counterparts in Norfolk, Wilmington, Philadelphia,...
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Civil War heroines volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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After the death of her parents and losing the family farm, Emily Harrison takes a job as a governess in Confederate Virginia, where she falls for Alexander Hunt, a secret Quaker leader of Rebel partisans who shares her antislavery beliefs.
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Gods of Gotham volume 2
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English
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In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.
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