Frederick Douglass Book Prize
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2018
Never caught : the
Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge by Erica
Armstrong Dunbar; The dawn of Detroit : a chronicle of slavery and freedom in
the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
2017 The slave's cause : a history of
abolition by Manisha Sinha
2016 Slave against slave : plantation violence in the
old South by Jeff Forret
2015 Freedom's mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the age of
revolution by Ada Ferrer
2014 Word by word : emancipation and the act of writing
by Christopher Hager
2013 To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker by
Sydney Nathans
2012 Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the
intellectual history of the Atlantic world by James Sweet
2011 Confederate reckoning : power and politics in the
Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry
2010 In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical
legacy in the Atlantic world by Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff;
Sex trafficking : inside the business of modern slavery by Siddharth Kara
2009
The Hemingses of
Monticello : an American family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008 Saltwater slavery : a middle
passage from Africa to American diaspora by
Stephanie E. Smallwood
2007 Moral capital : foundations of
British abolitionism by Christopher Leslie
Brown
2006 Degrees of freedom : Louisiana and
Cuba after slavery by Rebecca J. Scott
2005 A colony of citizens : revolution
& slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 by Laurent Dubois
2004
Harriet Jacobs : a
life by Jean Fagan Yellin
2003 The mighty experiment : free labor
versus slavery in British emancipation by
Seymour Drescher
2002 The Diligent : a voyage through
the worlds of the slave trade by Robert W.
Harms
2001
Race and reunion :
the Civil War in American memory by David W. Blight
2000 The rise of African slavery in the Americas by David Eltis
1999
Many thousands gone :
the first two centuries of slavery in North America by
Ira Berlin