Slavery, The Indian Ocean, and Painting: Professor Gunja SenGupta

We made up and interviewed Professor SenGupta. It was wonderful.

Professor Gunja SenGupta's current interests lie in 19th-century U.S.history  as well as slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean; sectional conflict; African American and women's history. She earned her PhD from Tulane University. She is the author of For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas,  From Slavery to Poverty: The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918, and her third, co-authored, book Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire, was just published by the University of California Press in 2023. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals including the American Historical Review, Journal of African American History, Civil War History, Kansas History,  Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Transition Magazine. 

Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander