The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.7115/DELBANCO,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, [2018]
DESCRIPTION
453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781594204050, 1594204055 :, 1594204055, 9781594204050
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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