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The Scorpion's Sting

Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

by James Oakes ...

A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionThe 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 ... Read more

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A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionThe 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
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Freedom National

The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

by James Oakes ...

**Winner of the Lincoln Prize"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It ... Read more

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**Winner of the Lincoln Prize"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It
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The Radical and the Republican

Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

by James Oakes ...

"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker“My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America ... Read more

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"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker“My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America
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The Packing Room

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THE PACKING ROOM is a story about four working class people and their manager who’ve suffered tragedies which have hindered them and changed the course of their lives.Still plagued with domestic, social and financial problems, their friendship wanes as they desperately fight for self- preservation at all costs.Looking deep into their souls as to how low they’ve sunk for survival, character changes ... Read more

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THE PACKING ROOM is a story about four working class people and their manager who’ve suffered tragedies which have hindered them and changed the course of their lives.Still plagued with domestic, social and financial problems, their friendship wanes as they desperately fight for self- preservation at all costs.Looking deep into their souls as to how low they’ve sunk for survival, character changes
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The Crooked Path to Abolition

Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

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**Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeAn award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.**The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a ... Read more

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**Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeAn award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.**The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a
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The Ruling Race

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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they ... Read more

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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they
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Slavery And Freedom

An Interpretation of the Old South

by James Oakes ...

This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology. ... Read more

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This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.
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The Crooked Path to Abolition

Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

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An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would ... Read more

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An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would
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Freedom National

The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

by James Oakes ...

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The consensus view of the Civil War—that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory—dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle.In the disloyal South the federal ... Read more

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The consensus view of the Civil War—that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory—dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle.In the disloyal South the federal
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In the Shadows

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Some secrets don’t stay buried—especially when the shadows have names.When respected resident physicians end up dead and vanishing clues leave a city gripped by fear, seasoned detective Dallas Everhart and his sharp-witted partner Marie Lawson must untangle a twisted web of manipulation, obsession, and control. But what begins as a murder investigation soon reveals a deeper, more personal vendetta ... Read more

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Some secrets don’t stay buried—especially when the shadows have names.When respected resident physicians end up dead and vanishing clues leave a city gripped by fear, seasoned detective Dallas Everhart and his sharp-witted partner Marie Lawson must untangle a twisted web of manipulation, obsession, and control. But what begins as a murder investigation soon reveals a deeper, more personal vendetta
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Her First Time

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What happens when the fantasy becomes real?Her First Time: Volume 2 continues exploring the emotional and erotic intensity of crossing the line between curiosity and experience.Across nine hotwife stories, couples find fantasy blurring unexpectedly into lived experience.Some stories are told as intimate confessions — private, vulnerable and emotionally charged. Others unfold directly in the heat ... Read more

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What happens when the fantasy becomes real?Her First Time: Volume 2 continues exploring the emotional and erotic intensity of crossing the line between curiosity and experience.Across nine hotwife stories, couples find fantasy blurring unexpectedly into lived experience.Some stories are told as intimate confessions — private, vulnerable and emotionally charged. Others unfold directly in the heat
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Her First Time

by Alex Lee ...

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Series Audiobook 1 - Her First Time
Unabridged

1 hour 48 min

What happens the first time a couple crosses a line they once swore they never would?Nine intimate hotwife stories exploring first times, boundaries, and the moment everything changes.This collection explores that moment — the hesitation, the temptation, the decision that can't be undone — through nine intimate hotwife stories focused on first experiences and the emotional fallout that follows ... Read more

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What happens the first time a couple crosses a line they once swore they never would?Nine intimate hotwife stories exploring first times, boundaries, and the moment everything changes.This collection explores that moment — the hesitation, the temptation, the decision that can't be undone — through nine intimate hotwife stories focused on first experiences and the emotional fallout that follows
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