Manisha Sinha

Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2016).[1] She received her Ph.D from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft Prize. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), which was named one of the ten best books on slavery in Politico in 2015.[2] Her second book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BBC History, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, and the Boston Globe among other newspapers and journals.[citation needed] It was featured as the Editor’s Choice of the New York Times Book Review in March 2016,[3] and named the book of the week by Times Higher Education in May 2016 to coincide with its UK publication.[4] Sinha is also a contributing author of The Abolitionist Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2012), and co-editor of African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century (Prentice Hall, 2004) and Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race and Power in American History (Columbia University Press, 2007).