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Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
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Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War Paperback - 2015 - 1st Edition

by James Oakes


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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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  • Title Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
  • Author James Oakes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Date 2015-06-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393351217 / 0393351211
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Antislavery movements - United States -, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.711
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