… wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize October 30, 2012. New Haven, CT—James Sweet, professor of history at the … a reception sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in New York City in February 2013. “James Sweet’s thoughtful and … Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights” (Verso Books); R. Blakeslee Gilpin for “John Brown Still Lives!: …