Full name: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

Author: Manisha Sinha Year: 2016 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780300181371 9780300227116 030018137X 0300227116

Received 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 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. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive new history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave's cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. Similar books: Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson Holy Warriors by James Brewer Stewart Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin A Warning by Anonymous American Nations by Colin Woodard Evicted by Matthew Desmond Control by Glenn Beck Licensed to Lie by Sidney Powell The Big Lie by Dinesh D'Souza The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Fascism by Madeleine Albright Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson