New Books in History

New Books in History


Manisha Sinha, “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” (Yale UP, 2016).

January 06, 2017

Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She was born in India and received her Ph.D from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft prize. Her book The Slaveâs Cause: â¦