An edition of Bound for Canaan (2005)

Bound for Canaan

the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America

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An edition of Bound for Canaan (2005)

Bound for Canaan

the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America

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A history of the Underground Railroad as the movement reflected America's moral complexities and political divisiveness offers insight into the role played by the nation's westward expansion, the spiritual beliefs that motivated each side of the conflict, and the efforts of black and white citizens to save tens of thousands of lives.

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Amistad
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English
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540

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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 Weggelopen slaven

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United States USA

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19th century

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Bound for Canaan
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
January 10, 2006, Amistad
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Bound for Canaan: the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America
2005, Amistad
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Table of Contents

pt. 1. Beginnings: 1800 to 1830.
An evil without remedy
The fate of millions unborn
A gadfly in Philadelphia
The hand of God in North Carolina
The spreading stain
pt. 2. Connections: The 1830s.
Free as sure as the Devil
Fanatics, disorganizers, and disturbers of the peace
The grandest revolution the world has ever seen
A whole-souled man
pt. 3. Confrontation: The 1840s.
Across the Ohio
The car of freedom
Our watchword is ONWARD
The saltwater underground
pt. 4. Victory: The 1850s.
A disease of the body politic
Do we call this the land of the free?
General Tubman
Laboratories of freedom
The last train.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [508]-519).

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7/115
Library of Congress
E450 .B735 2005, E450.B735 2005

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Pagination
xv, 540 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
540

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24722876M
ISBN 10
0060524308
ISBN 13
9780060524302
LCCN
2004052082
OCLC/WorldCat
55596641

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OL275897W

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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.

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