Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

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.

Author: James Oakes
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/01/2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780393351217
Language: English