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Author Oakes, James, author.

Title The scorpion's sting : antislavery and the coming of the Civil War / James Oakes.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.7114 OAKES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  973.7114 OAKES    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  973.71 OAKES    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  973.7114 OAK    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  973.711 OA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 207 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
ISBN 9780393239935 (hardcover)
0393239934 (hardcover)
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