Frederick Douglass Prize
Year Author Title
2019 Amy Murrell Taylor Embattled Freedom : Journeys through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps
2018 ( joint ) Erica Armstrong Dunbar Never Caught : The Washingtons ' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave , Ona Judge
2018 ( joint ) Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit : A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
2017 Manisha Sinha The Slave 's Cause : A History of Abolition
2016 Jeff Forret Slave against Slave : Plantation Violence in the Old South
2015 Ada Ferrer Freedoms Mirror : Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
2014 Christopher Hager Word By Word : Emancipation and the Act of Writing
2013 Sydney Nathans To Free a Family : The Journey of Mary Walker
2012 James Sweet Domingos Álvares , African Healing , and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
2011 Stephanie McCurry Confederate Reckoning : Power and Politics in the Civil War South
2010 Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff In the Shadow of Slavery : Africa 's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
2010 Second Prize Siddharth Kara Sex Trafficking : Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
2009 Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello : An American Family
2008 Stephanie E. Smallwood Saltwater Slavery : A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
2007 Christopher Leslie Brown Moral Capital : Foundations of British Abolitionism
2006 Rebecca J. Scott Degrees of Freedom : Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
2005 Laurent Dubois A Colony of Citizens : Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean
2004 Jean Fagan Yellin Harriet Jacobs : A Life
2003 Seymour Drescher The Mighty Experiment : Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
2003 Second Prize James F. Brooks Captives and Cousins : Slavery , Kinship , and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
List of recipients
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. It is a $25,000 award for the most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, abolition or antislavery movements.