Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Given by Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Other Names: Frederick Douglass Prize
85 Works 10,717 Books 193 Reviews ½ 4.0
In partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awards an annual $25,000 show more prize for an outstanding book published on the subject of slavery or abolition. The prize was first awarded in 1999.
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Stages:
All, Winner (7), Finalist (46), No Stage (32)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (4), 2023 (2), 2022 (3), 2021 (2), 2020 (4), 2019 (3), 2018 (4), 2017 (3), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2014 (3), 2013 (3), 2012 (4), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (4), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (5), 2004 (4), 2003 (4), 2002 (3), 2001 (2), 2000 (1), 1999 (6)

Winner 7

WorkCategoryYear
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution by Marlene L. Daut2024
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) by Sara E. Johnson2024
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela MoralesFirst Prize2023
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (Institute of Historical Research) by Simon P. NewmanFirst Prize2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2022
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan2022
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) by Sophie WhiteFirst Prize2020

Finalist 46

WorkYear
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge2024
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans by Emily A. Owens2024
The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh2022
A black jurist in a slave society : Antonio Pereira Rebou and the trials of Brazilian citizenship by Keila Grinberg2020
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (America in the Nineteenth Century) by Kellie Carter Jackson2020
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers2020
Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom by Jessica A. Krug2019
A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica by Brooke N. Newman2019
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry2018
Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade by Sharla M. Fett2018
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War by Alfred L. Brophy2017
Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) by Rashauna Johnson2017
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844 by Aisha K. Finch2016
Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire by Matthew S. Hopper2016
William Wells Brown: An African American Life by Ezra Greenspan2015
Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World (The Early Modern Americas) by Michael Guasco2015
Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro by Camillia Cowling2014
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor2014
More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 by Stephen Kantrowitz2013
Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France by Brett Rushforth2013
The American crucible : slavery, emancipation and human rights by Robin Blackburn2012
John Brown Still Lives!: America's Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change by R. Blakeslee Gilpin2012
Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson2012
The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery by Nicholas Draper2011
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America by Christina Snyder2011
John Brown's War Against Slavery by Robert E. McGlone2010
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph2009
Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Jacqueline Jones2009
Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South by Anthony E. Kaye2008
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War by Chandra Manning2008
Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 by Kristin Mann2008
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery by Matt D. Childs2007
Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty by Cassandra Pybus2007
Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life by Steven Deyle2006
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860 by Richard Follett2006
The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia by Claude Andrew Clegg2005
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely2005
Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'Port', 1727-1892 by Robin Law2005
The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech by Shane White2005
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn2004
Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 by James H. Sweet2004
Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 by John Wood Sweet2004
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement by Julie Roy Jeffrey1999
Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790 by Robert Olwell1999
From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley1999
Stylin': African American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit by Shane White1999

No Stage 32

WorkCategoryYear
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent BrownFirst Prize2021
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine KarsFirst Prize2021
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell TaylorFirst Prize2019
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong DunbarFirst Prize2018
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya MilesFirst Prize2018
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha SinhaFirst Prize2017
Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South by Jeff ForretFirst Prize2016
Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada FerrerFirst Prize2015
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing by Christopher HagerFirst Prize2014
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker by Sydney NathansFirst Prize2013
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by James H. SweetFirst Prize2012
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurryFirst Prize2011
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith CarneyFirst Prize2010
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth KaraSecond Prize2010
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-ReedFirst Prize2009
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. SmallwoodFirst Prize2008
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism by Christopher Leslie BrownFirst Prize2007
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery by Rebecca J. ScottFirst Prize2006
A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emanicpation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 by Laurent DuboisFirst Prize2005
Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan YellinFirst Prize2004
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation by Seymour DrescherFirst Prize2003
In the Shadows of Slavery : African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 by Leslie M. HarrisHonorable Mention2003
Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North by Patrick RaelHonorable Mention2003
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. BrooksSecond Prize2003
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert HarmsFirst Prize2002
The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines by Michael SalmanHonorable Mention2002
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race by John StaufferSecond Prize2002
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. BlightFirst Prize2001
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery by Don E. FehrenbacherSpecial Commendation2001
The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by David EltisFirst Prize2000
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira BerlinFirst Prize1999
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. MorganSecond Prize1999

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