The scorpion's sting
Subtitle: antislavery and the coming of the Civil War
By: James Oakes
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780393239935
Subjects: Antislavery movements; Causes; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: at stake; title: "Like a scorpion girt by fire"; title: The right versus the wrong of property in man; title: Race conflict; title: The wars over wartime emancipation; title: Epilogue: Harriet Beecher Stowe and her British sisters.