… $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize November 17, 2010. New Haven, CT – Judith A. Carney, Siddharth Kara and Richard … the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, based in New York. Carney, Kara and Rosomoff will share the $25,000 … the field of slavery and abolition by honoring outstanding books. The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), …