The scorpion's sting : antislavery and the coming of the Civil War

Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war.

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Main Author: Oakes, James.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Introduction: at stake -- "Like a scorpion girt by fire" -- The right versus the wrong of property in man -- Race conflict -- The wars over wartime emancipation -- Epilogue: Harriet Beecher Stowe and her British sisters. 
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