Join us 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 the University of Connecticut and President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Sinha will be in conversation with publisher of Connecticut Explored, Katherine Hermes, Ph.D., who also serves as a project team member with the Hartford Ancient Burying Ground Association.

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