Join Pequot Library for a discussion with University of Connecticut professor Manisha Sinha, Ph.D., author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition—a groundbreaking history of the largely forgotten role of African Americans in emancipation. Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at UConn, and President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Sinha will be in conversation with Katherine Hermes, Ph.D., Executive Director and Publisher of Connecticut Explored and Professor Emeritus, History, at Central Connecticut State University.

This talk, which is free and open to the public, is organized in conjunction with our exhibition The Tinderbox of the Civil War: 1830s Abolitionism in Connecticut, on view through May 10.