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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.