Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

By The Gilder Lehrman Institute

By The Gilder Lehrman Institute

Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

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. 

Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave...

Amy Murrell Taylor

$24.95

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their...

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

$16.99
$15.63

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha...

Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve

$19.99
$18.39

The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in...

Tiya Miles

$18.99
$17.47

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

Manisha Sinha

$25.00
$22.50

Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South

Jeff Forret

$65.00

Freedom's Mirror

Ada Ferrer

$32.99
$29.69

Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing

Christopher Hager

$21.50

To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker

Sydney Nathans

$21.50

Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual...

James H. Sweet

$35.00

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Stephanie McCurry

$29.40

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

$21.95
$19.76

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American...

Stephanie E Smallwood

$29.40

In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the...

Judith Carney

$31.14

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Siddharth Kara

$18.95
$17.43