The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Book Details
- Author
- James Oakes
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Black & African Americans
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780393351217
- ISBN-10
- 0393351211
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ISBN: 0393351211
Author: Oakes, James
Condition: New
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 would die. The image opens a fresh perspective on antislavery and the coming of the Civil War, brilliantly explored here by one of our greatest historians of the period.
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