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Bound for Canaan
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Bound for Canaan

Author : Fergus M Bordewich
Performed By : Fergus M. Bordewich
Published By - Harper Collins US
Duration : 6 hours
Type : American
Social & Economic
Pre 1900
Download Price : $29.95 $19.95
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An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.

The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion 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 courageous 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 challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law.

Meticulously 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.

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Performed By : Dianna Dorman
Published By - Blackstone Audio Inc
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Type : American
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Published By - Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
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Type : American
British
20th Century
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