Slave's Cause Sinha Manisha
Slave's Cause Sinha Manisha Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass PrizeA groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward…
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Slave's Cause Sinha Manisha
Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass PrizeA groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil WarReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor.