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  • BOUND FOR CANAAN
    FERGUS M. BORDEWICH
    "Well written, moving . . . stimulating," this account of racially unified abolitionism "could provide the occasion for a constructive national conversation" ( New York Times).   The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, wh...

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  • WASHINGTON
    FERGUS M. BORDEWICH
    Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place once described as a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," and which was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and the target of unbridled land speculation—our nation's capital? In Washingt...

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