TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Delbanco, Andrew, CN - E450 CN - E450 ID - 855681 KW - Fugitive slaves KW - Fugitive slaves KW - Slavery KW - Slavery KW - Fugitive slaves LA - Text in English. N2 - 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. SN - 9781594204050 SN - 1594204055 T1 - The war before the war :fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War / TI - The war before the war :fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War / ER -