It takes immense courage to defy federal law and prevailing standards. Sixty years before the Civil War, people with nothing in common except a passion to do the right thing worked together to save more than 100,000 lives. This epic of secrecy, high drama, and extraordinary heroes focuses on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired political movement for change. A 2006 American Library Association Notable. "Engrossing... remarkable stories."—The NewYorker