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The Scorpion's Sting : Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War, Paperback / softback Book

The Scorpion's Sting : Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

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