Yale University Announces Winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff have been selected as co-winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. The prize is shared with Siddharth Kara, who won for his book "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery". The prize is awarded by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, based in New York.

Key Takeaways:

• Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff were selected as co-winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for their book "In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World".
• Siddharth Kara won the prize for his book "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery".
• The Frederick Douglass Book Prize was established in 1999 to stimulate scholarship in the field of slavery and abolition.
• The prize is awarded annually by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
• This year's finalists were selected from a field of nearly 100 entries by a jury of scholars that included Edward Ball, Jeffrey Ferguson, and Martha Hodes.
• The winners will share the $25,000 prize, which will be presented at a dinner in February 2011.

Statistics:

• 100: Number of entries submitted for the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
• $25,000: The amount of the prize awarded to the winners.
• 1999: The year the Frederick Douglass Book Prize was established.
• 1818-1895: The dates of Frederick Douglass, the slave who escaped bondage to emerge as one of the great American abolitionists.

Sources:

• M2 PressWIRE-November 17, 2010-Yale University: Winners Announced for $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
• gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
• http://www.presswire.net
• http://www.m2.com