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Bound for Canaan : the epic story of the Underground Railroad, America's first civil right movement / Fergus M. Bordewich.
Presents a comprehensive study of the Underground Railroad and those who were instrumental in helping thousands of runaway slaves to freedom and profiles key figures including Levi Coffin, Harriett Tubman, Thomas Garrett, William Still, and many others.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060524319
- ISBN: 0060524316
- ISBN: 0329470493
- ISBN: 9781439573648
- ISBN: 9780329470494
- ISBN: 0329616331
- ISBN: 9780329616335
- Physical Description: xvii, 540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition: 1st Amistad pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Amistad, 2006.
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [501]-519) and index. |
| Citation/References Note: | Library Journal Starred Pub Weekly Kirkus Starred |
| Target Audience Note: | Adult Follett Library Resources Adult |
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Bound for Canaan : The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
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Bound for Canaan : The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change--The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines, and everyday folk For most, the mention of the Underground Railroad evokes images of hidden tunnels, midnight rides, and hairsbreadth escapes. Yet the Underground Railroad's epic story is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion,which brought together Easterners who had engaged in slavery primarily in the abstract alongside slaveholding Southerners and their slaves, arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and pious whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only subverted federal law but also went against prevailing mores. Flawlessly researched and uncommonly engaging, Bound for Canaan, shows why it was the Underground Railroad and not the Civil Rights movement that gave birth to this country's first racially-integrated, religiously-inspired movement for social change.
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