The war before the war fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
[2018]
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-441) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1594204055 9781594204050 |
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