Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
Author: Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher: Arnistad Press
Copyright: 1991
Pages: 576
Cover Price: $ 14.99
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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.
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Background Information
A system of secret transportation known as the Underground Railroad conducted ruanway slaves from the Deep South to freedom in Canada. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 only deferred and did not eliminate the deep divide in philosophical and economic feelings about slavery and its extension to new territories. Abolitionism was the movement, centered in the North, that abolition of slavery even in those states that had practiced it since the founding of the country.
