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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oakes, James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.