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

List of recipients[2]
Year Author Title
2023 (joint)[3] R. Isabela Morales Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom
Simon P. Newman Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
2022 (joint)[4] Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Jennifer L. Morgan Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
2021 (joint)[5] Vincent Brown Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Marjoleine Kars Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
2020[6] Sophie White Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
2019[7] Amy Murrell Taylor Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
2018 (joint)[8] Erica Armstrong Dunbar Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
2017 Manisha Sinha The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
2016 Jeff Forret Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South
2015 Ada Ferrer Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
2014 Christopher Hager Word By Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
2013 Sydney Nathans To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
2012 James H. Sweet Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
2011 Stephanie McCurry Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
2010 Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
2010
Second Prize 		Siddharth Kara Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
2009 Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2008 Stephanie E. Smallwood Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
2007 Christopher Leslie Brown Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
2006 Rebecca J. Scott Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
2005 Laurent Dubois A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean[9]
2004 Jean Fagan Yellin Harriet Jacobs: A Life
2003 Seymour Drescher The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
2003
Second Prize 		James F. Brooks Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
2002 Robert W. Harms The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
2002
Second Prize 		John Stauffer The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race[10]
2001 David Blight Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
2000 David Eltis The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
1999 Ira Berlin Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery
1999
Second Prize 		Philip D. Morgan Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

See also

References

  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.