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Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners
By The Gilder Lehrman Institute
By The Gilder Lehrman Institute
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is an annual award for the most outstanding non-fiction book on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition.
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Vincent Brown
$35.00 $32.552021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winner
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Marjoleine Kars
$27.99 $26.032021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winner
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Sophie White
$34.442020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
Amy Murrell Taylor
$32.202019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Tiya Miles
$18.99 $17.662018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
$16.99 $15.802018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Kathleen Van Cleve and Erica Armstrong Dunbar
$19.99 $18.59
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha
$25.00 $23.252017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South
Jeff Forret
$74.752016 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
Christopher Hager
$30.002014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
Sydney Nathans
$30.002013 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
James H. Sweet
$43.132012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Stephanie McCurry
$31.202011 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
Judith Carney
$31.142010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (With a New Preface by the Author)
Siddharth Kara
$18.95 $17.622010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
$21.95 $20.412009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
Stephanie E Smallwood
$31.202008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
Christopher Leslie Brown
$48.882007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery
Rebecca J. Scott
$36.002006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
Laurent DuBois
$54.632005 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation
Seymour Drescher
$57.542003 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade
Robert Harms
$20.992002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Revised)
David W Blight
$21.002001 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
