24th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Please join us for an in-person event on February 16 at Trinity Church Wall Street at Trinity Church Wall Street for the 24th 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:
Tiya Miles for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House)
Jennifer L. Morgan for Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press)
Finalist:
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh for The Souls of Womenfolk: Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South (University of North Carolina 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.