لسعة العقرب: مناهضة العبودية ومقدمات الحرب الأهلية

The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, burning itself to death, was popular among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It embodies their long-term strategy to peacefully abolish slavery. * They will surround the states where slavery is practiced with a belt of freedom, tightening the noose on slavery and leading to a social crisis that will end this abnormal institution. The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, burning itself to death, was popular among anti-slavery leaders before the Civil War. This image embodies their long-term strategy for peacefully abolishing slavery: surround the slave states with a belt of freedom, restrict slavery, and create a social crisis that will destroy this anomalous institution. This image opens new horizons about anti-slavery and the outbreak of the Civil War, and it is brilliantly addressed here by one of the most prominent historians of that period.