In this interview, Professor Sinha discusses the history of the Reparation Movement and its successes and failures.
Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft prize. 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. 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 and featured in The New York Times 1619 Project.
Her second monograph, the multiple-award winning The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2016) was long listed for the National Book Award for Non Fiction. She is the author and editor of numerous other books and articles. She has lectured all over the world and written widely for the mainstream press including The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and The Wall Street Journal.
