The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

FEATURING MANISHA SINHA – The United States has never properly reckoned with its history of slavery, and many attribute our on-going problem of persistent racism to that collective amnesia.

But modern-day historians like my guest Manisha Sinha are attempting to rectify that by exploring in great detail, not just how serious a crime slavery was, but how it was finally beaten back. In a hefty 600-page book called The Slave’s Cause, Sinha explores the history of Abolition.

Manisha Sinha, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her earlier books include The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina. Her new book is called The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.