Penguin Books

Penguin Books - The war before the war: fugitive slaves and the struggle for america's soul from the revolution to the civil war, paperback/andrew delbanco

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Description Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018 Excellent.

stunning.

--Ta-Nehisi Coates The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War For decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free.

There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that en.