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Bound for Canaan
The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of AmericaBy Fergus BordewichNarrated by Fergus Bordewich
Length5h 29m
About this audiobook
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.
Written and read by Fergus M. Bordewic
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Psychology
Length5 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byFergus Bordewich
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 9, 2005
LanguageEnglish
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