Description
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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/15/2015
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780393351217
ISBN10: 0393351211
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Social Science | Slavery
- History | African American & Black