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The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

by Manisha Sinha

★ Frederick Douglas Prize ★ National Book Award for Non-Fiction Longlist

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 War Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this

Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2017
Format: Print edition
Pages: 784
ISBN: 9780300227116

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History: African American (History)Political Science: Human Rights Social Science: Slavery

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