… The finalists are: Aisha K. Finch for “Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of … (University of North Carolina Press); Jeff Forret for “Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South” … Dubois, 2005; Rebecca J. Scott, 2006; Christopher Leslie Brown, 2007; Stephanie Smallwood, 2008; Annette Gordon-Reed, …