“Gateway to Freedom,” a book about the Unrground Railroad by Eric Foner, began wh the notebook of an abolnist edor, Sydney Howard Gay.
Contents:
IRAN'S GAY UNRGROUND RAILROAD: 'EHER YOU WANT TO LEAVE, OR YOU WANT TO DIE'
* gay underground railroad *
Sydney Howard Gay, the edor of the Natnal Anti-Slavery Standard, scend om Puran lumari and had married a rich (and radil) Quaker heirs. Louis Napoleon, his -nspirator, is believed to have been the eeborn son of a Jewish New Yorker and an Ain Amerin slave; he worked as a porter Gay’s office.
While Gay published abolnist maniftos and raised money, Napoleon prowled the New York docks search of black stowaways and crisscrossed the Mason-Dixon Le guidg pe to was Gay who, 1855 and ’56, kept the “Rerd of Fugiv” that the unrgraduate found Columbia Universy’s archiv, chroniclg more than 200 p. ” Perhaps most poignant, Gay matter-of-factly rerd the slav’ scriptns of their motiv for pe.
As wh Gay and Napoleon’s partnership, s operatns often brought together rich and poor, black and whe, a mon e. Sydney Howard Gay, a key Unrground Railroad agent, also kept rerds of fugive slav but his rerds were only disvered 2007 by a Columbia Universy unrgraduate. When historian and Columbia Universy profsor Eric Foner saw the document, he realized that Gay had listed the inti of ped slav, where they were om, how they ped and who helped them to do so.