The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War / Andrew Delbanco.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, [2018]Description: 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1594204055
- 9781594204050
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
- 973.7/115 23
- E450 .D45 2018
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | 973.7 DEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 920389 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-441) and index.
Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act divided the nation and set it on the path to civil war.
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