Bordewich Fergus - Bound For Canaan The Epic Story Of The Underground Railroad America's First Civil Rights Movement - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Bound For Canaan The Epic Story Of The Underground Railroad America's First Civil Rights Movement
Author(s): Bordewich Fergus
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060524319
Pages: 592 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/10/2006