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

James Oakes

207 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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An award-winning historian illuminates the strategy for ending slavery that precipitated the crisis of civil war.Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil Wa...

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