Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

Name: Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
Brand: Amistad Press
SKU: 0060524316
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ISBN: 9780060524319

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10 Jan, 2006

By Fergus Bordewich (Author)

An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change--The Underground Railroad, a mov...

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ISBN-10:

0060524316

ISBN-13:

9780060524319

Publisher

Amistad Press

No.of Pages

592

Dimensions

7.98 X 5.36 X 1.01 inches

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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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ISBN-10

: 0060524316

ISBN-13

: 9780060524319

Publisher

: Amistad Press

Publication date

: 10 Jan, 2006

About the Author

Fergus Bordewich -

Fergus M. Bordewich is the author of several books, including Bound for Canaan, Killing the White Man's Indian, and My Mother's Ghost, a memoir. The son of a national civil rights leader for Native Americans, he was introduced early in life to racial politics. As a journalist, he has written widely on political and cultural subjects in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, American Heritage, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Reader's Digest, and many other publications. He was born in New York City, and now lives in New York's Hudson River Valley with his wife and daughter.