Manisha Sinha at the American Writer's Museum August 2nd

August 2nd 6;30 pm at the American Writer's Museum 180 N. Michigan Avenue 2nd Floor

University of Connecticut Department of History professor and James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History Manisha Sinha presents her book The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

The Slave's Cause is a groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War.
Sinha’s research interests lie in United States history, especially the transnational histories of slavery and abolition and the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is a member of the Council of Advisors of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg, New York Public Library, co-editor of the “Race and the Atlantic World, 1700-1900,” series of the University of Georgia Press, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Civil War Era and Slavery and Abolition. She has written for The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Time Magazine, CNN, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Dissent, and The Huffington Post and been interviewed by The Times of London, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Boston Globe, Slate, The Daily Caller, and Gothamist.