The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, at Yale University. It is a $25,000 award for a book on the subject of slavery.[1][2]
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family |
| 2008 | Stephanie E. Smallwood | Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora |
| 2007 | Christopher Leslie Brown | Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism |
| 2006 | Rebecca J. Scott | Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery |
| 2005 | Laurent Dubois | A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean[3] |
| 2004 | Jean Fagan Yellin | Harriet Jacobs: A Life |
| 2003 | Seymour Drescher | The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation |
| 2003 Second Prize |
James F. Brooks | Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands |
| 2002 | Robert Harms | The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade |
| 2002 Second Prize |
John Stauffer | The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race[4] |
| 2001 | David Blight | Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| 2000 | David Eltis | The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas |
| 1999 | Ira Berlin | Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery |
| 1999 Second Prize |
Philip D. Morgan | Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry |