The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History

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2018     Freedom's debtors : British antislavery in Sierra Leone in the age of revolution by Padraic X. Scanlan
2017     Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 by David Wheat
2016     Frontiers of possession : Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas by Tamar Herzog
2015     Freedom's mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution by Ada Ferrer; Final passages : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619–1807 by Gregory E. O’Malley
2014     Two troubled souls : an eighteenth-century couple's spiritual journey in the Atlantic world by Aaron Spencer Fogleman
2013     The mortal sea : fishing the Atlantic in the age of sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster
2012     Freedom papers : an Atlantic odyssey in the age of emancipation by Rebecca J. Scott and Jean-Michel Hebrard
2011     Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade by David Eltis and David Richardson; Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world by James H. Sweet
2010     In the eye of all trade : Bermuda, Bermudians, and the maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1683 by Michael J. Jarvis
2009     Genealogical fictions : limpieza de sangre, religion, and gender in colonial Mexico by Maria-Elena Martinez
2008     The slave ship : a human history by Marcus Rediker
2007     On the wings of time : Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru by Sabine MacCormack
2006     Moral capital : foundations of British abolitionism by Christopher Leslie Brown
2005     Plants and empire : colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world by Londa Schiebinger
2004     A colony of citizens : revolution & slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 by Laurent Dubois
2003     Anne Orthwood's bastard : sex and law in early Virginia by John Ruston Pagan
2002     American pentimento : the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches by Patricia Seed
2001     How to write the history of the New World : histories, epistemologies, and identities in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
2000     Indians and English : facing off in early America by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
1999     Republic of capital : Buenos Aires and the legal transformation of the Atlantic world by Jeremy Adelman