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The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War / Andrew Delbanco.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, [2018]Description: 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1594204055
  • 9781594204050
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7/115 23
LOC classification:
  • E450 .D45 2018
Summary: 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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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 973.7 DEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 920389
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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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