The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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Andrew Delbanco
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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

453 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil WarFor decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact t...

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