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

Author: Andrew Delbanco Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781594204050 1594204055

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, thereby forcing the nation to confront the truth about itself. The struggle over slavery divided not only the American nation but also the hearts and minds of individual citizens faced with the timeless problem of when to submit to unjust laws and when to resist. The War Before the War illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still. Similar books: If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine Ecstatic Nation by Brenda Wineapple The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter Arguing about Slavery by William Lee Miller Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker The Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 by William W. Freehling Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson