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Author Oakes, James, author.

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

Publisher New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014.

ISBN 9780393239935 (hardcover)
0393239934 (hardcover)



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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
Subject(S) Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
ISBN 9780393239935 (hardcover)
0393239934 (hardcover)