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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: James Oakes
language: en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date: 2014-05-19
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.
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: James Oakes
language: en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date: 2014-05-19
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction 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.