The Scorpion's Sting Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
The Scorpion's Sting Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
- ISBN 13:
9780393351217
- ISBN 10:
0393351211
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 06/15/2015
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
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 fresh perspective on antislavery and the coming of the Civil War, brilliantly explored here by one of our greatest historians of the period.