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The slave's cause : a history of abolition

text The slave's cause : a history of abolition

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... Read more
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 ant... Read more
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Description
xiv, 768 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Publisher
Yale University Press 2016

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 973.7 SIN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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