Bound for Canaan

By Fergus M. Bordewich

Subjects: Fugitive slaves--united states--history--19th century, Underground railroad, 973.7/115, Nonfiction, Antislavery movements, united states, Abolitionismus, Abolitionists--united states--history--19th century, Fugitive slaves, united states, E450 .b735 2005, Fugitive slaves, Antislavery movements--history, Multi-Cultural, Abolitionists--history, Underground Railroad, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, History, Fugitive slaves--history, Antislavery movements--united states--history--19th century

Description: 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.