Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives

by Don Papson and Tom Calarco

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786466650
• ISBN13: 9780786466658
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher