Bound for Canaan The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America By Fergus M. Bordewich
“Fergus Bordewich’s Bound for Canaan recaptures this grand, edifying history of the first black migration to freedom with the insightfulness, comprehensiveness, and narrative vigor the subject demands.” —David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the two-volume life of W.E.B. DuBois
“Using the latest scholarship and long-buried archival materials, Bordewich brings to life the Underground Railroad and the realities of this least understood yet most remarkable period in American history. Bound for Canaan reveals in stunning detail and beautiful prose the inner working of this clandestine system and liberates us all from the myths of the Underground Railroad.” —Kate Clifford Larson, author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
