Ebook {Epub PDF} The Slaves Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha

 · Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a 3/5(1).  · Manisha Sinha’s The Slave’s Cause presents a stellar chronicle of the abolition movements of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Sinha charts antislavery movements from the mids through the American Revolution, the emancipation of slaves in Britain and France and America’s political battles leading to the Civil War/5. Her multiple award winning second monograph The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition was long listed for the National Book Award for Non Fiction. It was named Editor’s Choice in the New York Times Book Review, book of the week by Times Higher Education to coincide with its UK publication, and one of three great History books of in Bloomberg News.

A 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. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond. Buy The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Professor Manisha Sinha online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 3 editions - starting at $ Shop now. The abolitionist vision linked the slave's cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in Early American History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Her multiple award winning second monograph The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition was long listed for the National Book Award for Non Fiction. It was named Editor’s Choice in the New York Times Book Review, book of the week by Times Higher Education to coincide with its UK publication, and one of three great History books of in Bloomberg News. As Sinha argues in one of the most original sections of “The Slave’s Cause,” “black abolitionists produced the first full-blown analyses of American racism,” beginning with a treatise by. Manisha Sinha’s The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition presents a revolutionary narrative that gives black activism long overdue acknowledgment. At the same time, Sinha erases needless color lines, revealing the comprehensive nature of abolitionism."—Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People.