Unabridged Audiobook
Really enjoyed listening to this work. I was expecting to learn more about the Underground Railroad but the author really gives you a much more rounded history of slavery in both the pre-revolutionary colonies as well as the Union leading up to the Civil War.
Much too slow, hard to follow.
This book is about an essential piece of history, and the author clearly did a huge amount of research. Unfortunately it's simply not structured in a way that compels. In spite of the subject matter often being either devastating or exhilarating, Mr. Foner presents much of it without a larger context and without making the story really evolve. Ultimately, it's a well documented chronology of events in New York City, with a few genuinely intriguing insights. Worth the read, but could have been better.
This is a great history book. This is one of the best I've ever read.
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