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

Author/creator Sinha, Manisha author.
Format Book
PublicationNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Descriptionxiv, 768 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographic references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN030018137X hardcover
ISBN9780300181371 hardcover