Yale-GLC Frederick Douglass Book Talk: Marlene Daut’s "Awakening the Ashes" and Sara E. Johnson’s "Encyclopédie noire"

Book Talk: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Reception to follow

Humanities Quadrangle Room 276, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 | Yale University

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Yale University Scholars Kaiama Glover (Professor of Black Studies) and Edward Rugemer (Professor of History and Black Studies) in conversation with authors:

• Marlene L. Daut (Professor of French and Black Studies, Yale University); and

• Sara E. Johnson (Professor of Literature, UC-San Diego)

Join Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition in celebrating French Caribbean scholarship and the two co-winners of 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize (FDBP): Marlene L. Daut for Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press) and Sara E. Johnson for Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press). "These two extraordinary books,” 2024 FDBP jury chair Amy Murrell Taylor noted, “are unique in focus but converge in the common quest to uncover the intellectual legacies of slavery and enslaved people, through wide-ranging and inventive readings of texts.” Both authors, she continues, “see in the French Caribbean, and the intellectual labors of Haitian people, the roots of modern thought about slavery and freedom, racism, and colonialism." The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is jointly sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) in New York City and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at Yale University. Established in 1999, the FDBP recognizes the best book written in English on the topics of slavery, resistance, or abolition copyrighted in the preceding year.