Frederick Douglass Prize
Encyclopedia
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
, at Yale University
.
It is a $25,000 award for a book on the subject of slavery.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, founded in New York by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman in 1994, was set up to promote the study and love of American history.The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public...
, at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
It is a $25,000 award for a book on the subject of slavery.
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She is Professor of Law and History at Harvard, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe... |
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 Rebecca J. Scott Rebecca Jarvis Scott is an American historian, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at University of Michigan.-Life:... |
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery |
| 2005 | Laurent Dubois | A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean |
| 2004 | Jean Fagan Yellin Jean Fagan Yellin Jean Fagan Yellin is an American historian specializing in Women's History and African-American History, and Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Pace University. She is best known for her scholarship on escaped slave, abolitionist, and author Harriet Ann Jacobs.-Life and Career:Yellin... |
Harriet Jacobs: A Life |
| 2003 | Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery.... |
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation |
| 2003 Second Prize |
James F. Brooks James F. Brooks James F. Brooks is an American historian whose work on slavery, captivity and kinship in the Southwest Borderlands was honored with major national history awards: the Bancroft Prize, Francis Parkman Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Frederick Douglass Prize... |
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 |
| 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 Ira Berlin Ira Berlin is an American historian, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and a past President of the Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as Many Thousands Gone and Generations of Captivity.-Biography:Berlin received his Ph.D.... |
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery |
| 1999 Second Prize |
Philip D. Morgan Philip D. Morgan Philip D. Morgan is a British-American historian. He has specialized in Early Modern colonial British America, and slavery in the Americas... |
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry |
External links
- "Frederick Douglass Book Prize Award Dinner", CSPAN, February 28, 2002