Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America

Synopsis

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.