Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement Audiobook (Free)

An important book of epic range on America’s 1st racially built-in, religiously inspired movement for change

The civil war taken to a climax the country’s bitter division. However the beginnings of slavery’s denouement can be tracked to a courageous band of ordinary Us citizens, dark and white, slave and free of charge, who joined pushes to create what would become known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as intimate a place in the country’s imagination as the Lewis and Clark about Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story from the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Privileges Movement expedition. The true story from the Underground Railroad is much more morally complicated and politically divisive than also the myths recommend. Against a backdrop of the country’s westward expansion arose a brutal clash of values that was nothing at all significantly less than a war for the country’s spirit. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an action of such huge and profound civil disobedience that not only challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal government law.

Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; striking Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to create the Underground Railroad; as well as the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving fascinating personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, Bound for Canaan shows the way the Underground Railroad provided birth to this country’s first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for cultural change.