Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad HEALTH and the human cost of

and the human cost of political oppression

Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence—from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group—with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own

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as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad HEALTH and the human cost ofAuthor Contributor(s): Foner, Eric Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Date: 01 18 2016 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW