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A review by shiradest
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco
4.0
This book presents a truly frightening idea. The idea that emancipation did not in fact have to be the outcome of the war, is truly unsettling.
The idea that the separation could have continued and made slavery even worse is a terrifying idea.
I will let the reader refer to updates I made as I read this book but leave with the last page of comments from Frederick Douglass and from Nathaniel Hawthorne that the war had "made attainable" freedom but those freed slaves would indeed " face a hard battle with the world, on very unequal terms."
And still do.
Shira Destinie Jones
The idea that the separation could have continued and made slavery even worse is a terrifying idea.
I will let the reader refer to updates I made as I read this book but leave with the last page of comments from Frederick Douglass and from Nathaniel Hawthorne that the war had "made attainable" freedom but those freed slaves would indeed " face a hard battle with the world, on very unequal terms."
And still do.
Shira Destinie Jones