Manisha Sinha Quotes

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.