Frederick Douglass Book Prize
2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Submissions
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are pleased to announce the twenty-sixth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, an annual award for the most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition. This year’s prize will accept submissions of books copyrighted in the year 2023. Please note that works related to the Civil War are acceptable only if their primary focus relates to slavery or emancipation. Only books copyrighted in 2023 will be considered.
Submission guidelines are available. The deadeline for submissions is Friday, May 3rd, 2024. To request the submission guidelines, send an inquiry with Frederick Douglass Book Prize 2024 in the subject line to: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
Yale Announces 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners
R. Isabela Morales and Simon P. Newman
November 14, 2023
Click here for the full announcement: https://glc.yale.edu/news/yale-announces-2023-frederick-douglass-book-prize-winners
Sponsored by
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
and
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is made possible by a generous gift
from Gilder Lehrman Center supporter Daniel Pinkel,
Professor Emeritus at the University of California San Francisco.
The Gilder Lehrman Center is supported by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.