Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America / Fergus M. Bordewich
- Bib ID:
- 3771054
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bordewich, Fergus M
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Amistad, c2005
- [xvii], 540 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0060524308 (hardback)
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PART ONE
- BEGINNINGS: 1800 TO 1830
- 1. An Evil Without Remedy 11
- 2. The Fate of Millions Unborn 29
- 3. A Gadfly in Philadelphia 46
- 4. The Hand of God in North Carolina 64
- 5. The Spreading Stain 84
- PART TWO
- CONNECTIONS: THE 1830S
- 6. Free as Sure as the Devil 105
- 7. Fanatics, Disorganizers, and Disturbers of the Peace 126
- 8. The Grandest Revolution the World Has Ever Seen 147
- 9. AWhole-Souled Man 166
- PART THREE
- CONFRONTATION: THE 1840S
- 10. Across the Ohio 189
- 11i. The Car of Freedom 217
- 12. Our Watchword Is ONWARD 241
- 13. The Saltwater Underground 268
- PART FOUR
- VICTORY: THE 1850S
- 14. A Disease of the Body Politic 295
- 15. Do We Call This the Land of the Free? 320
- 16. General Tubman 344
- 17. Laboratories of Freedom 374
- 18. The Last Train 401
- Epilogue 433
- Notes 440
- Selected Bibliography 501
- Index 521.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [501]-519.
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