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 (or pair of books) of the year in English on the subject of slavery, abolition, or antislavery movements. It was first awarded in 1999.
List of recipients + List of recipientsThe Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Year Author Title 2025Justene Hill EdwardsSavings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank2024 (joint)Marlene L. DautAwakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian RevolutionSara E. JohnsonEncyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World2023 (joint)R. Isabela MoralesHappy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and FreedomSimon P. NewmanFreedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London 2022 (joint)Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeJennifer L. Morgan Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic 2021 (joint)Vincent Brown Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarMarjoleine Kars Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast 2020Sophie WhiteVoices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana 2019Amy Murrell Taylor Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps 2018 (joint)Erica Armstrong Dunbar Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona JudgeTiya Miles The 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 World2010 Second PrizeSiddharth KaraSex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery 2009Annette Gordon-ReedThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family2008Stephanie E. SmallwoodSaltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora2007Christopher Leslie BrownMoral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism2006Rebecca J. ScottDegrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery2005Laurent DuboisA Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean2004Jean Fagan Yellin Harriet Jacobs: A Life2003Seymour DrescherThe Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation2003 Second PrizeJames F. BrooksCaptives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands2002Robert W. HarmsThe Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade2002 Second PrizeJohn StaufferThe Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race2001David BlightRace and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory2000David EltisThe Rise of African Slavery in the Americas1999Ira BerlinMany Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery1999 Second PrizePhilip D. Morgan Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
See also
List of history awards
References
External links "Frederick Douglass Book Prize Award Dinner", C-SPAN, February 28, 2002 "The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History"