… Fagan Yellin’s Biography of Legendary “Slave Girl” wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize (New York) - A long-awaited … a school for black refugees behind Union lines. The $25,000 annual award for the year’s best non-fiction book on … on February 24, 2005, as the capstone of Black History Month. Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the philanthropists …