The Slave's Cause
A History of Abolition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7306997 |
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| Authors | David Roediger (0009-0008-9518-5242, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 719-721 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, Manisha Sinha, 2020 |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaw342 |
| OpenAlex | W2900486121 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This important book is poised to become the definitive general history of U.S. abolitionism for decades to come. Exhaustive research, dramatic writing, and ambitiously full coverage make The Slave's Cause unlikely to be surpassed in scholarship. At the same time, the interpretations offered explicitly early and late in the book and implicitly in the vivid storytelling throughout reflect the particular concerns of our scholarly generation. The book is a triumph, but the times, in historiography and in politics, that produced it lend themselves to sharply defining some interpretive issues and to eliding others. Two striking interpretive lines deserve particular foregrounding. The first, drawing on rich Marxist and leftist black nationalist scholarship so well-represented at the University of Massachusetts, where Manisha Sinha teaches, places black people at the center of the plot of abolition. Excellent coverage of humanitarianism, Christianity, and reform frame matters, but the insistence on African American self-activity changes how The Slave's Cause considers those matters. Barely two dozen lines into the book, Sinha forthrightly declares, “Slave resistance, not bourgeois liberalism, lay at the heart of the abolition movement.” (p. 1
Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Race, History, and American Society
Organizing Democracy
Carbon Captured
Conditional Freedom
African American History
Civil War Settlers
The Free Sea
She Is Weeping
Friends of Freedom
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
The Mayflower and the Slave Ship
Presidential Address
"Prophecies of Loss"
A Right to Ourselves
Doubt as a Political Virtue
Abolitionist Networks
Advocates of Freedom
The difference of colour
Holding a Mirror up to Nature
Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société
Violence and Atheism in the Age of Abolition
Transatlantic Discontinuity? The Clapham Sect's Influence in the United States
Populism and Conspiracy
Dividends of the Colour Line
In This Together? Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effects of Shared Racial Fate on the Predictive Role of Racial Socialization and Discrimination on Black Activism
Territorial Neutrality and Cultural Pluralism in American Federalism
Disband, Disempower, and Disarm
Whither Abolition
Paul J. Polgar, Standard-Bearers of Equality
Beyond antislavery and proslavery
Better to kill them off at once”
Nineteenth-century feminist historiography
Reflections on Designing Curriculum to Interrogate Social Studies
L’éruption patriote
Repensando o Direito Constitucional Comparado no Brasil
William Lloyd Garrison’s Shattered Faith in Antislavery Constitutionalism
The Abolitionist State of Exception
Much-Abused Luke”
Partisanship and Racial Attitudes in U.S. Civil War Enlistment
An Abolitionist Liveability Against State Carceral Unchilding Ahmad Manasra’s life-making
Rioting as legitimate abolitionist practice
Alexander Crummell on Coleridge and the Politics of Abolitionist Selfhood
From Polity to Exchange
Haiti and the Black Intellectual Tradition, 1829–1934
The world-literary system and the Atlantic
Amelioration or abolition? British consulship, Haitian recognition, and the question of colonial emancipation
Forty-one years a slave
It is to a great extent, a new book ”
Prophetic Perfectionism
Nat Turner and the Affective Power of Religious Fanaticism
The Protocols of Dependency in Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
The Sensory Landscape of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Connecticut River Valley
The Body Politic and the Citizen’s Mouth
Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
Fighting the Minor Evils
Maria Weston Chapman, French Salons, and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Structural Racism, Health Inequities, and the Two-Edged Sword of Data
In the Service of God and Humanity
The city in the age of Trumpism
Ontological Terror
O Paraíso Visto Do Norte
Mutual brokerage and women’s participation in nineteenth-century Anglo-American abolitionist movements
Reparative histories
Critical Dogmatism
Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
Model Settlers, Model Laborers, and the Limits of the Anti-Slavery Colonial Imagination
The Spectrum of Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery
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