Warren, Colonel
Washington, D. C.: first Freedmen’s hospital in
slavery in
slave trade in
underground railroad in
Washington, George
Washington, Lewis W.
Watkins family
Watson, Edward
Way, Henry H.
Way, Jesse
Weaver, Annie
Weaver, Henry
Webster, Daniel
Webster, Delia
Wedgwood, Josiah
Weekly Anglo-African,
Weir, George, Jr.
Weisenburger, Steven
Weld, Theodore Dwight
Westbury, N. Y.
Wheaton, Charles
Whig Party
Whipper, William
White, Benjamin
White, Isaac
Whitfield, George
Whitfield (minister)
Whitney, Eli
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wilberforce settlement
Wilcox, Lumond
Wilks, Jerry
Williams, Remembrance
Williams, Samuel
Williams (slave hunter)
Willis, Byrd C.
Willis, George
Wilmington, Del.
Wilson, Hiram
Wilson, James
Winmer, Dr. (Peterboro guest)
Wise, Henry A.
Wolf by the Ears, The: Thomas Jefferson and
Slavery (Miller)
women: in abolitionist movement
treatment of enslaved
in underground railroad
women’s rights movement,
Douglass and
Garrison and
Stowe and
Woolman, John
World’s Anti-Slavery Convention (1840),
World’s Fair of 1851
Wright, Elizur
Wright, Henry
Wright, Oswell
Wright, William
Wyandots
Xenia News,
Yale University
as beneficiary of slave trade
Zion Baptist Church
Zip (fugitive)
About the Author
FERGUS M. BORDEWICH has written for the New York Times,Smithosnian, American Heritage, Atlantic Monthly, and Reader’s Digest, and is the author of Killing the White Man’s Indian and My Mother’s Ghost.
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Acclaim for Bound for Canaan
WINNER OF THE GREAT LAKES BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION AWARD
“Blending historical imagination with a novelist’s sense of character, Bordewich…brings to life a small group of black and white Americans who defied popular opinion and the authority of the federal government to combat what they regarded as a fundamental moral evil.”
—Washington Post
“The author’s skill in unearthing long-buried sources of information in an area of history where so little was written down is impressive.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“This is a masterful story—a deeply American story—of the human quest for freedom. This multi-racial movement is still a beacon of hope in our present dark times.”
—Cornel West, University Professor of Religion, Princeton University, and author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters
“Rich in detail and solid storytelling: sure to awaken interest in the peculiar anti-institution.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“For thousands of African-American slaves, the Promised Land of Canaan lay north of the Mason-Dixon Line and Ohio River. This fast-paced narrative is the best account we have of the network of back roads and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad to freedom in that Promised Land.”
—James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
“A rich, spellbinding, and readable narrative.”
—School Library Journal (starred)
“It has been over 100 years since a comprehensive work like this has been written on the Underground Railroad. Using the latest scholarship and long-buried archival materials, Bordewich brings to life the realities of this least understood, yet most remarkable period in American history. Highlighting well-known as well as long-forgotten heroes of the Underground Railroad, Bound for Canaan reveals in stunning detail and beautiful prose the inner workings of this clandestine system…and shines a bright light on the real inner workings of what was once a powerfully secret and wholly illegal operation.”
—Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D., author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
“Utterly compelling.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)
“Excellent…. The first truly comprehensive treatment of the underground railroad.”
—Civil War History Magazine
“Bordewich’s impressive success with Bound for Canaan rests on formidable research, artful organization…and tight, clear, brawny storytelling.”
—American Heritage
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
My Mother’s Ghost: A Courageous Woman, a Son’s Love, and the Power of Memory
Killing the White Man’s Indian: The Reinvention of Native Americans at the End of the 20th Century
Cathay: A Journey in Search of Old China
Credits
Maps by Nick Springer
Copyright
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* Josiah Henson estimated the total number of blacks in Canada at twenty thousand, but his guess was probably high. Among these, Colchester had the largest proportion of blacks, about 30 percent. Blacks were about 23 percent in Malden township, 16 percent in adjoining Amherstburg township, and 11 percent in Amherstburg village, the civilian settlement that grew up outside Fort Malden.
*There was actually a total of about ten thousand white settlers in Kansas at this time.
* The four were the educator and journalist Samuel Gridley Howe, whose wife would write the Civil War anthem, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”; George L. Stearns, a wealthy Massachusetts linseed oil manufacturer who had supplied guns for Kansas; the radical Unitarian minister Thomas Wentworth Higginson, l
ater editor of the Atlantic Monthly; and another Unitarian minister, the silver-tongued Theodore Parker. Together with Smith and Sanborn, they would become known as the “Secret Six.”
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