Ebook: The scorpion's sting: antislavery and the coming of the civil war
Author: Oakes James
- Tags: Antislavery movements, Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century, War--Causes, History, Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865, War -- Causes, United States
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
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.;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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