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The scorpion's sting : antislavery and the coming of the Civil War James Oakes
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 449 .O115 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oakes, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393239935 (hardcover)
- 0393239934 (hardcover)
- 9780393351217 (pbk.)
- 0393351211 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 872377655
- Publisher Number:
- 40023903309
- 9780393239935
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