history & science

Fergus M. Bordewich

In his book Bound for Canaan, author Fergus Bordewich challenges the romantic images of the Underground Railroad by using an impressive array of archival and contemporary sources (letters, autobiographies, tax records and slave narratives, as well as new scholarship), revealing the Underground Railroad to be much more complicated – and much more remarkable – than is usually understood.

Recorded 6/9/2006 at National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Length: 60 minutes