Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement Paperback - 2006
by Bordewich, Fergus
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Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, this work shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.
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- Title Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
- Author Bordewich, Fergus
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Amistad Press, New York
- Date 2006-01-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013579924
- ISBN 9780060524319 / 0060524316
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.36 x 1.01 in (20.27 x 13.61 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical:
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Antislavery movements - United States -, Underground Railroad
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004052082
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.711
From the rear cover
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change
The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a fierce clash of values that was nothing less than a war for the country's soul. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law.
Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad; and the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, Bound for Canaan shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.
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Citations
- New York Times, 02/26/2006, Page 20
