Book Review: The scorpion's sting, Antislavery and the coming of the civil war by James Oakes ISBN 9780393239935

Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War,captures long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom.

I picked up the book after reading Washington Post review and it certainly offered a closer look at Civil War from a new persepctive.