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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Sprache: | eng |
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Penguin Books
2019
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Zusammenfassung: | 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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Beschreibung: | First published by Penguin Press, 2018 Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-441) and index |
Beschreibung: | xxi, 453 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm |
ISBN: | 9780735224131 978-0-7352-2413-1 0735224137 0-7352-2413-7 9781594204050 978-1-59420-405-0 |