… Book Prize Winner: Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Finalists : Camillia … Robin Blackburn, The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights R. Blakeslee Gilpin, John Brown … Civil War South Finalists: Nicolas Draper, The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British …