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Bound for Canaan

Bound for Canaan

Bordewich, Fergus

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 0060524316
ISBN13: 9780060524319
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.36 Depth: 7.98
Language: English

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.

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