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List members may be interested in the below talk. Apologies for cross-posting.
The Slave’s Cause: A New History of Abolition
Fri 14 Oct 2016, 18:30 - 20:00, The British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Rd
http://www.bl.uk/events/a-new-history-of-abolition
Manisha Sinha discusses her new book
The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. A ‘movement history’ that expands the chronology of Anglo-American abolition and situates it transnationally, Sinha offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of abolition as a radical social movement. She challenges
much of the received historical wisdom of abolitionists as bourgeois reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism.
Sinha explores the impact of the Haitian Revolution, the European Revolutions of the 1830s and 1848, British Chartism, Irish Repeal, and the international peace movement on the politics and ideology of abolition. She’ll uncover the political significance
of slave resistance in the growing radicalisation of the abolition movement that rejects conventional historical divisions between slave resistance and antislavery activism.
More broadly, this talk interrogates how radical social movements like abolition provide political and ideological space for the disfranchised and become engines of political change.
Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She was born in India and received her PhD from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft prize. She is the author of The
Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
which was named one of the 10 best books on slavery in Politico, and
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition which featured as the Editor’s Choice of the
New York Times Book Review and named the book of the week by Times Higher Education in May.
With best wishes,
Francisca
Dr Francisca Fuentes
Assistant Head
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