Iran's Gay Unrground Railroad: 'Eher You Want To Leave, Or You Want To Die'
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IRAN'S GAY UNRGROUND RAILROAD: 'EHER YOU WANT TO LEAVE, OR YOU WANT TO DIE'
“Gateway to Freedom,” a book about the Unrground Railroad by Eric Foner, began wh the notebook of an abolnist edor, Sydney Howard Gay. * 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.