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Manisha Sinha

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[Wikipedia] Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) and The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-19

Quotes by Manisha Sinha

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

Justify

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We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many…

Abolition

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The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men…

Accepted

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In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

England

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In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a…

Able

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Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

Abolitionist

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