''The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition'' is a history book by

Manisha Sinha Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of '' The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition'' (2016) and ''The Rise a ...

that was released in February 2016 by

Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope ...

. Writing in ''

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'', Adam Rothman calls ''The Slave's Cause'' "a stunning new history of

abolitionism Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies. ...

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