Quotes from Manisha Sinha

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.

It should come as no surprise that the defense of racial slavery gave rise to a profoundly reactionary worldview.

majority of the men who held political office and led the movement for a separate southern nation were planters or substantial slaveholders,

The age of democratic revolutions inaugurated by the American revolution made the existence of slavery and servile labor questionable for the first time in western history