The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history

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2018     Jah kingdom : Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the age of decolonization by Monique A. Bedasse
2017     Slavery at sea : terror, sex, and sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande' Mustakeem
2016     Crossing the color line : race, sex, and the contested politics of colonialism in Ghana by Carina Ray
2015     Freedom's mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the age of revolution by Ada Ferrer
2014     Chosen people : the rise of American Black Israelite religions by Jacob S. Dorman
2013     The Black revolution on campus by Martha Biondi
2012     Sojourning for freedom : black women, American communism, and the making of black left feminism by Erik S. McDuffie
2011     Forging diaspora : Afro-Cuban and African Americans in a world of empire and Jim Crow by Frank Andre Guridy
2010     Ocean of letters : language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean diaspora by Pier M. Larson
2009     Captives and voyagers : black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world by Alexander X. Byrd
2008     Diaspora conversions : black Carib religion and the recovery of Africa by Paul Christopher Johnson
2007     "New Negroes from Africa" : slave trade abolition and free African settlement in the nineteenth-century Caribbean by Rosanne Marion Adderley; Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf
2006     True-born maroons by Kenneth M. Bilby
2005     Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely
2004     Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 by James H. Sweet
2003     In the shadow of slavery : African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 by Leslie M. Harris
2002     A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten by Julie Winch
2001     Brotherhoods of color : Black railroad workers and the struggle for equality by Eric Arnesen
2000     The rise of African slavery in the Americas by David Eltis
1999     Freedoms given, freedoms won : Afro-Brazilians in post-abolition San Paulo and Salvador by Kim D. Butler
1998     Slave counterpoint : Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan
1997     Black jacks : African American seamen in the age of sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster; Rising wind : Black Americans and U.S. foreign affairs, 1935-1960 by Brenda Gayle Plummer
1996     Abiding courage : African American migrant women and the East Bay community by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
1995     Our rightful share : the Afro-Cuban struggle for equality, 1886–1912 by Aline Helg
1994     Life for us is what we make it : building Black community in Detroit, 1915–1945 by Richard W. Thomas