Event Details
Please join us on February 28, 2024, at Trinity Church Wall Street for the 25th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize Award Ceremony.
One of the most coveted awards for the study of slavery and abolition, this $25,000 prize is sponsored jointly by the Gilder Lehrman Institute
and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University.
We are thrilled to announce the two winners and finalist for this year’s award:
Winners:
R. Isabela Morales, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Oxford University Press)
Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (University of London Press)
Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (University of London Press)
Finalist:
David Silkenat, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South (Oxford University Press)
The Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Gilder Lehrman Center thank both Daniel Pinkel and Trinity Church
for making the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Award Ceremony possible.
