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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.
Reckoning with Slavery
Jennifer L Morgan
Paperback
$33.29
2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winner
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar,
Kathleen Van Cleve
Hardback
$19.99
$18.59
The Slave's Cause
Professor Manisha Sinha
Paperback
$27.00
$25.11
2017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Freedom's Mirror
Professor Ada Ferrer
Paperback
$34.99
$32.54
2015 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Word by Word
Associate Professor of English and American Studies Christopher Hager
Paperback
$32.00
2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
To Free a Family
Professor of History Sydney Nathans
Paperback
$30.00
2013 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
Associate Professor James H Sweet
Paperback
$43.13
2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Confederate Reckoning
Professor of History Stephanie McCurry
Paperback
$28.00
2011 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
In the Shadow of Slavery
Judith Carney,
Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
Paperback
$31.14
2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed
Paperback
$21.95
$20.41
2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Saltwater Slavery
Associate Professor of History Stephanie E Smallwood
Paperback
$33.60
2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Learn more about the Gilder Lehrman Institute's National Book Prizes and our award-winning American history education programs at gilderlehrman.org.