20th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
November 19, 2018
The 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize will be shared by two scholars: Erica Armstrong Dunbar for “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge” (37Ink/Atria Books); and Tiya Miles for “The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits” (The New Press).
Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard
Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Miles is professor of history and the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
University.
The Douglass Prize was created jointly by
the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and
Abolition at Yale University’s MacMillan Center and the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History in New York City.
It is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the best book
written in English on slavery or abolition. The $25,000 prize, shared by
the two winners, will be presented to Dunbar and Miles at a reception
sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in
New York City on Feb. 28. The reception also celebrates the 20th
anniversary of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
In addition to Dunbar and Miles, the two other finalists for the prize were Daina Ramey Berry for
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Beacon Press) and Sharla M. Fett for
Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade (The
University of North Carolina Press). All four books were hailed for
their outstanding research, analysis, and writing applied to the
understanding
of the centrality of slavery, and resistance to it, to the foundation
of the United States.continue...
I am a huge fan of both ladies! Hugs and Congrats!
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