| Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement Contributor(s): Bordewich, Fergus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060524316 ISBN-13: 9780060524319 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, this work shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Slavery - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 973.711 |
| LCCN: 2004052082 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.36" W x 7.98" (1.01 lbs) 592 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 114138 Reading Level: 10.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 35.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change--The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines, and everyday folk For most, the mention of the Underground Railroad evokes images of hidden tunnels, midnight rides, and hairsbreadth escapes. Yet the Underground Railroad's epic story is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion, which brought together Easterners who had engaged in slavery primarily in the abstract alongside slaveholding Southerners and their slaves, arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and pious whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only subverted federal law but also went against prevailing mores. Flawlessly researched and uncommonly engaging, Bound for Canaan, shows why it was the Underground Railroad and not the Civil Rights movement that gave birth to this country's first racially-integrated, religiously-inspired movement for social change. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bordewich, Fergus: - Fergus M. Bordewich is the author of several books, including Bound for Canaan, Killing the White Man's Indian, and My Mother's Ghost, a memoir. The son of a national civil rights leader for Native Americans, he was introduced early in life to racial politics. As a journalist, he has written widely on political and cultural subjects in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, American Heritage, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Reader's Digest, and many other publications. He was born in New York City, and now lives in New York's Hudson River Valley with his wife and daughter. |