Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.

The Civil War brought to a climax the country's bitter division.

But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition.