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- Author: James Oakes
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 160
- ISBN: 9780393244274
- ISBN-10: 039324427X
- ISBN-13: 9780393244274
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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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 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
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 160
- ISBN: 9780393244274
- ISBN-10: 039324427X
- ISBN-13: 9780393244274
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
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 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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