Description
Throughout the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society’s National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with one of the most most essential Underground agents within the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay’s closest associate used to be Louis Napoleon, a free black man who played a massive role within 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 on this book. Revealing how Gay used to be 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 women and men who were necessary links within the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a day by day reality.