Highlighting the career of the remarkable abolitionist Thomas Shipley
JMC faculty partner Andrew Delbanco has won a 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book, The War Before the War, which explores how fugitive slaves helped push the nation towards civil war.
JMC faculty partner Andrew Delbanco discusses the complicated and important history of fugitive slave laws and constitutional protections of slavery on NPR's Fresh Air.