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