Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America

Description: An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement featuring Harriet Tubman, the brave leader of the Underground Railroad 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 Harriet Tubamn and 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, soon to be the first African American featured on American currency. 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. Product detailsPublisher : Amistad; First Edition (March 29, 2005)Language : EnglishHardcover : 560 pagesISBN-10 : 0060524308ISBN-13 : 9780060524302

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Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Title: Bound for Canaan

Subjects: History & Military

Book Title: Bound for Canaan : the Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America

Item Length: 9in

Item Height: 1.3in

Item Width: 6.1in

Author: Fergus Bordewich

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Slavery, Social History, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Black Studies (Global), United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Year: 2005

Genre: History, Social Science

Item Weight: 32.1 Oz

Number of Pages: 560 Pages