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

Publication Info.	New York : Penguin Books, 2019.
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Description	xxi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note	Originally 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.
Subject	Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
	Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Fugitive slaves. (OCoLC)fst00935940
	Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00935943
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	War -- Causes. (OCoLC)fst01170331
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
ISBN	0735224137
	9780735224131

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