Manisha Sinha: 15 books
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was...
The Slave's Cause
A History of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social...
Emancipation at 150
The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
"Emancipation at 150: The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation" is a scholarly anthology on the Emancipation Proclamation with contributions from leading Lincoln historians and government officials. Topics covered in the anthology range from views of the Proclamation through the eyes of enslaved people...
The Politics of Black Citizenship
Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics—it was an effort that sought to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship...
by Andrew Delbanco, John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Abolitionists have been painted in extremes—vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.
by Manisha Sinha, Donna Murch, Peniel Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Race Capitalism Justice urges us to embrace a vision of justice attentive to the history of slavery not through the lens of human rights, but instead through an honest accounting of how slavery was the foundation of capitalism, a legacy that continues to afflict people of color and the poor. Inspired...
Punishing the Black Body
Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and...
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
The Mulatta Concubine
Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies....
Enterprising Women
Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction...
Almost Free
A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.
There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After...
Finding Charity's Folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica...
Diplomacy in Black and White
John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with economic...
Electronic Health Record
Standards, Coding Systems, Frameworks, and Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Discover How Electronic Health Records Are Built to Drive the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery
The increased role of IT in the healthcare sector has led to the coining of a new phrase "health informatics," which deals with the use of IT for better healthcare services. Health...
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