Bound for Canaan The Triumph of the Underground Railroad

Name: Bound for Canaan The Triumph of the Underground Railroad
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ISBN: 9780006395539

ISBN-10: 0006395538

ISBN-13: 9780006395539

Edition: 2006

Authors: Fergus M. Bordewich

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For many of the thousands of blacks who escaped slavery in19th-century America through the network of the Underground Railroad,"Canaan" meant "Canada" and freedom. In Bound forCanaan, the first panoramic exploration of the Underground Railroad, slaves,slave owners and emancipators are caught up in a fierce clash of values thatbecomes a turning point in race relations and the human rights movement.Complemented by an introduction by Lawrence Hill, the acclaimedauthor of Any Known Blood, Fergus M. Bordewich's masterfulnarrative weaves together the personal stories of men and women with thepolitics of slavery and abolition to show how the Underground Railroad gavebirth to North America's first…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.00" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English