Bound for Canaan
the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America
by Fergus M. Bordewich
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A history of the Underground Railroad as the movement reflected America's moral complexities and political divisiveness offers insight into the role played by the nation's westward expansion, the spiritual beliefs that motivated each side of the conflict, and the efforts of black and white citizens to save tens of thousands of lives.
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Underground railroad, Abolitionists, Fugitive slaves, Nonfiction, Multi-Cultural, Antislavery movements, History, Abolitionismus, Underground Railroad, Antislavery movements, united states, Fugitive slaves, united states, Antislavery movements--history, Antislavery movements--united states--history--19th century, Fugitive slaves--history, Fugitive slaves--united states--history--19th century, Abolitionists--history, Abolitionists--united states--history--19th century, E450 .b735 2005, 973.7/115, Abolitionisme, Slavernij, Weggelopen slavenPlaces
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
January 10, 2006, Amistad
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Bound for Canaan: the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America
2005, Amistad
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [508]-519).
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With a historian's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for story, Fergus M. Bordewich has written a grand epic of American history — focusing on the sixty years leading up to the Civil War, which brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But its beginnings can be traced to a clandestine alliance of both black and white abolitionists and slaves, who joined forces to lead tens of thousands of enslaved Americans to freedom in a movement that occupies a legendary place in the nation's imagination, but about which little has been known until now.
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