The war before the war [electronic resource] : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War / Andrew Delbanco.
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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- ISBN: 9780525560302
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
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| General Note: | Electronic book. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- The long fuse. The problem ; Slavery and the Founders ; A compromised Constitution ; The first text ; Caught ; War of words ; Into the courts -- The fuse is lit. To the brink ; State of the Union ; The last truce ; Explosion ; Trials of conscience ; The end of compromise ; "And the war came". |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York Penguin Publishing Group 2018 Available via World Wide Web. |
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