Manisha Sinha is associate professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000) and coeditor of the the two-volume African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century (2004) and Contested Democracy: Race, Freedom, and Power in American History (2007). At present, she is working on a book on African Americans and the movement to abolish slavery. She has written and lectured widely on southern and African American history, and has also written several articles on the historic nature of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and inauguration in The Huffington Post.

Lecture topics:

• Secession as Counterrevolution: Proslavery Thought and the Coming of the Civil War
• Rethinking American Exceptionalism in the History of the African Slave Trade
• Remembering Lincoln in the Age of Obama
• Allies for Emancipation?: Lincoln and Black Abolitionists

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