Manisha Sinha

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

— Manisha Sinha

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

— Manisha Sinha

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

— Manisha Sinha

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

— Manisha Sinha

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

— Manisha Sinha

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

— Manisha Sinha