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Book, 2014
Current format, Book, 2014, First edition., No Longer Available.
Book, 2014
Current format, Book, 2014, First edition., No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
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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