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For decades after its founding, America was really two nations\u2013one 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 \u201cunited\u201d states was actually a lie. We talk about the history and role of the fugitive slaves with professor Andrew Delbanco author of the book The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America\u2019s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.\n\nGuest: Andrew Delbanco\xa0is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.\xa0 Author of many books including The Real American Dream,\xa0and\xa0The Puritan Ordeal.\nThe post Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America\u2019s Soul From the Revolution to the Civil War appeared first on KPFA.