Fergus M. Bordewich

Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement (2006)

It started as a loosely connected group of mostly white Quakers and a few black freedmen seeking to get newly run- away slaves to the relative freedom of some of the larger cities in the North like New York, Philadelphia, and eventually Chicago. By the time it was over, it reached into the deepe...