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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. However, 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.
This movement occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a fierce clash of values that was nothing less than a war for the country's soul. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law.
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