We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image