[PDF.86hs] The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

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 | #694483 in Books |  2015-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.20 x.60 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| read it all the day I got it. Clear ...|By F. mellberg|read it all the day I got it. Clear,well organized writing makes his points well. Not sure I understand why military emancipation issues needed so much coverage though.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellen! A treat!|By Alex Levy|The first chapter is d|From Booklist|Casual American-history buffs will quietly lay this book aside, while serious students of the events and attitudes toward slave emancipation in the decades before the outbreak of the Civil War will f

A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction for 2014.

The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and inducing the social crisis in which the peculiar institution would die. The image opens a...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War   |  James Oakes. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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