Frederick Douglass Prize
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The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 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][2]
List of recipients
Source: The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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[3] |
| 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 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[4] |
| 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 |
References
External links
- "Frederick Douglass Book Prize Award Dinner", CSPAN, February 28, 2002
- "The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History"
