Slavery and Abolition | Teacher Seminars Online

This seminar will explore the central place of slavery in national politics and political economy in the early American republic. It will explore the role of slave resistance in the emergence of the abolition movement and the radical, interracial nature of abolitionism. Finally, it will trace the process of emancipation and the legacy of the contested long after lives of slavery and abolition in the United States.

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Manisha Sinha, Lead Scholar

Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She received her PhD from Columbia University, where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft Prize. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2022. She taught at the University of Massachusetts for over twenty years, where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed on faculty. Sinha is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, which was named one of the ten best books on slavery by Politico. Her book The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and SHEAR Best Book Prize, was also long-listed for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Her latest book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920, was published in 2024.