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Received historical intelligence casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mainly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and financial conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her range beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical interpersonal movement in which men and women, dark and white, free and enslaved, found common surface in causes which range from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and initiatives to guard the privileges of labor. Attracting on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the impact of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and practices of abolition. This reserve is a thorough new background of the abolition motion in a transnational framework. It illustrates the way the abolitionist vision eventually linked the slave's cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and real human rights across the globe.
