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

New York : Penguin Press, 2018.

453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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.

English

November 29, 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-441) and index.