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Lädt ... The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolitionvon Manisha Sinha
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An very, very detailed account of the history of abolition. Well researched and clearly written, with an exhaustive index available to find whatever it is you're looking for in this book. ( ) I may not have been the right audience for this book dedicated to arguing that abolitionism wasn’t a white movement, but rather constantly influenced and guided by African-American voices, and otherwise more open to appeals to women’s rights and worker’s rights than it has sometimes been portrayed. (I'm not the right audience because I'm not embedded in that literature.) Sinha makes the case that self-emancipation—escape from slavery—produced some of the most influential voices on behalf of enslaved people. I also did learn this wonderful line from Frederick Douglass: “What O’Connell said of the history of Ireland may with greater truth be said of the negro’s. It may be ‘traced like a wounded man through a crowd, by the blood.’” (I hear Douglass is doing great things recently.) Zeige 4 von 4
Manisha Sinha’s tour de force ... There’s more than enough already in this weighty and distinguished tome to advance the study of abolitionism far beyond anything any of us imagined possible. In his magisterial Making of the English Working Class, the incomparable English historian, E.P. Thompson said that he intended to rescue the working class from the condescension of history. In her masterwork, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, Manisha Sinha heroically rescues abolitionism from the condescension of historians. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
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 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.711History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War Political history; causes, results CausesKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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