The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War - Andrew Delbanco Audiobook
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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 enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the “united” states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights at all. By awakening Northerners to the true nature of slavery, and by enraging Southerners who demanded the return of their human “property”, fugitive slaves forced the nation to confront the truth about itself.
By 1850, with America on the verge of collapse, Congress reached what it hoped was a solution - the notorious Compromise of 1850, which required that fugitive slaves be returned to their masters. Like so many political compromises before and since, it was a deal by which white Americans tried to advance their interests at the expense of black Americans. Yet the Fugitive Slave Act, intended to preserve the Union, in fact set the nation on the path to civil war. It divided not only the American nation, but also the hearts and minds of Americans who struggled with the timeless problem of when to submit to an unjust law and when to resist.
The fugitive slave story illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.
©2018 Andrew Delbanco (P)2018 Penguin Audio
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
April 25th, 2023
People who write these books are so clueless to the fact that Americans just did what so many other countries had already done for thousands of years. Purchased slaves that Africans enslaved and sold. In fact black slavers in Africa had been selling black slaves to the middle East and turkey for 700 years before any European had purchased one.
Such stupidity and race baiting in a book so full of lies about pointing fingers. There is only one place to point the finger, the blacks in Africa who have had slavery probably before anyone else and continue to have slavery today. Go get reparations from them.
April 25th, 2023
@Hogweed
Let me explain to you why I am going to read this book: I read a lot of history books. Because I read lots of books I can learn the facts where there are facts and can make judgements about what seems to be editorializing.
Someone who hasn’t read this book and says its nothing but race baiting and so full of lies, well, is speaking from a place of ignorance. You need to read the book first before you can critique it. That’s not a knock on you, just a knock on you doing what you just did there.
Don’t feel bad, many people jump to conclusions and judge a book by its cover. That’s why we have that aphorism.
This is not a takedown of you. It’s a takedown of saying something based on ignorance, not based on an actual reasoned analysis.
April 25th, 2023
The excerpt here kinda makes it seem like this is gonna be the kind of book where the author preaches an arrogant, hard-line stance and imagines that everything would’ve been better back then if people had just been decent, moral people like himself.
If you read the intro, though, it’s not really like that at all. Delbanco clearly recognizes both that people had different views back then, and also that the disputes had no easy answers. I don’t know if this book breaks new ground at all, but from what I’ve read it does seem like a pretty decent account of the conflict over slavery in the antebellum period.
April 28th, 2023
@emtpeu - thanks for the update based on the intro
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