The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

This book tells the story of America's original sin--slavery--through politics, law, literature, and above all, through the eyes of enslavedblack people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, th…

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