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.
Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
Amy Murrell Taylor
$24.952019 Winner
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
$16.99 $15.632018 Winner
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve
$19.99 $18.392018 Winner
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Tiya Miles
$18.99 $17.472018 Winner
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Stephanie McCurry
$30.002011 Winner
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
Judith Carney
$31.142010 Winner
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
James H. Sweet
$35.002012 Winner
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
Stephanie E Smallwood
$30.002008 Winner