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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
Published 2019 by Penguin Books, New York
ISBN 9780735224131
Bib Id 2306772
Copyright 2018
Description xxi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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LCCN
2019-947057
ISBN
9780735224131 (paperback) $18.00
0735224137
Call #
973.7115 D
Title
The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
Publication Information
2019 by Penguin Books, New York :
Copyright Date
©2018
Description
xxi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note
First published by Penguin Press, 2018.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-441) and index.
Contents
The long fuse : The problem ; Slavery and the Founders ; A compromised Constitution ; The first test ; 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."
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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