Manisha Sinha will present “A New History of Slavery and Emancipation" as a way to commemorate

Juneteenth, Friday, June 19th, at 7pm at the Catherine Cummings Theatre, 16 Lincklaen Street,

Cazenovia, NY . The talk is free and open to the public. Sales of her books and a book signing will follow.

Pre-registration is encouraged using QR code or by visiting the National Abolition Hall of Fame and

Museum website (https://www.nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org).

Sinha researches and writes about the global histories of slavery, abolition, and feminism and the history

and legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The recipient of a recipient of the John Simon

Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022, her numerous books include The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition,

which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and was long listed for the National Book Award for

Non-Fiction, and most recently, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction,

1860-1920. Reviews of her books have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times,

and The Wall Street Journal, among others. She has been interviewed by the national and international

press, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time

Magazine, CNN, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and The Huffington Post. Sinha is currently the the

Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut after teaching at the University of

Massachusetts for over twenty years where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor

bestowed on faculty.

This event is sponsored by the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Peterboro, NY ,

which honors American abolitionists and abolition history. The museum is open to the public weekends

12 - 4PM June through October. The NAHOF website lists an exciting range of programming for 2026 as

well as resources focused on NAHOF’s mission which, Honors antislavery abolitionists, their work to end

slavery, and the legacy of that struggle, and strives to complete the second and ongoing abolition - the

moral conviction to end racism. For more information, please contact nahofm1835@gmail.com