The scorpion's sting: antislavery and the coming of the civil war

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.