Bound for Canaan

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.

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

Places: United States,  USA

Times: 19th century