Title The slave's cause : a history of abolition / Manisha Sinha.

Publication Info.	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Description	xiv, 768 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographic references (pages 593-731) and index.
Contents	Part I. The first wave. Prophets without honor ; Revolutionary antislavery in Black and White ; The long northern emancipation ; The Anglo-American abolition movement ; Black abolitionists in the slaveholding republic ; The neglected period of antislavery -- Part II. The second wave. Interracial immediatism ; Abolition emergent ; The woman question ; The Black man's burden ; The abolitionist international ; Slave resistance ; Fugitive slave abolitionism ; The politics of abolition ; Revolutionary abolitionism ; Abolition war -- Epilogue: The abolitionist origins of American democracy.
Summary	"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." -- Publisher's description
Subject	Slavery -- United States -- History.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
	African American abolitionists -- History.
	African American women abolitionists -- History.
	Abolitionists -- United States -- History.
	Slave rebellions -- History.
	United States -- History.
	Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
	African American abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00798994
	African American women abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00799472
	Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
	Slave insurrections. (OCoLC)fst01120389
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780300181371 cloth alk. paper
	030018137X cloth alk. paper

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