Frederick Douglass Book Prize

The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

It is a $25,000 award for the most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, abolition or antislavery movements.[1]

List of recipients edit

List of recipients[2]
YearAuthorTitle
2023 (joint)[3]R. Isabela MoralesHappy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom
Simon P. NewmanFreedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
2022 (joint)[4]Tiya MilesAll That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Jennifer L. MorganReckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
2021 (joint)[5]Vincent BrownTacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Marjoleine KarsBlood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
2020[6]Sophie WhiteVoices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
2019[7]Amy Murrell TaylorEmbattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
2018 (joint)[8]Erica Armstrong DunbarNever Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Tiya MilesThe Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
2017Manisha SinhaThe Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
2016Jeff ForretSlave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South
2015Ada FerrerFreedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
2014Christopher HagerWord By Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
2013Sydney NathansTo Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
2012James H. SweetDomingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
2011Stephanie McCurryConfederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
2010Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas RosomoffIn the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
2010
Second Prize
Siddharth KaraSex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
2009Annette Gordon-ReedThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2008Stephanie E. SmallwoodSaltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
2007Christopher Leslie BrownMoral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
2006Rebecca J. ScottDegrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
2005Laurent DuboisA Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean[9]
2004Jean Fagan YellinHarriet Jacobs: A Life
2003Seymour DrescherThe Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
2003
Second Prize
James F. BrooksCaptives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
2002Robert W. HarmsThe Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
2002
Second Prize
John StaufferThe Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race[10]
2001David BlightRace and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
2000David EltisThe Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
1999Ira BerlinMany Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery
1999
Second Prize
Philip D. MorganSlave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Frederick Douglass Book Prize | The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition". glc.yale.edu. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  2. ^ The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
  3. ^ "Yale Announces 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners". The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. 2023-11-14. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  4. ^ "Announcing the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners". gilderlehrman.org. November 16, 2022. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  5. ^ "Announcing the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winners, Vincent Brown and Marjoleine Kars". gilderlehrman.org. November 23, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  6. ^ "Yale announces 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner". glc.yale.edu. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  7. ^ "Yale announces 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner". glc.yale.edu. November 12, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  8. ^ "Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". YaleNews. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  9. ^ Nhu Vien Thi Nguyen (December 5, 2005). "Interview with Laurent Dubois, Winner of the $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize". Retrieved September 18, 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "Two Frederick Douglass Prize Winners". the New York Times. September 26, 2002. Retrieved September 18, 2010.

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