Bound for Canaan The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, Americas's First Civil Rights Movement

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.Bordewich, Fergus M. is the author of 'Bound for Canaan The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, Americas's First Civil Rights Movement', published 2006 under ISBN 9780060524319 and ISBN 0060524316.