@article{855681,
      recid = {855681},
      author = {Delbanco, Andrew,},
      title = {The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle  for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War /},
      pages = {453 pages :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/855681},
}