Year |
Author |
Title |
2024 (joint)[3] |
Marlene L. Daut |
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution |
Sara E. Johnson |
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World |
2023 (joint)[4] |
R. Isabela Morales |
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom |
Simon P. Newman |
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London |
2022 (joint)[5] |
Tiya Miles |
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake |
Jennifer L. Morgan |
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic |
2021 (joint)[6] |
Vincent Brown |
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War |
Marjoleine Kars |
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast |
2020[7] |
Sophie White |
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana |
2019[8] |
Amy Murrell Taylor |
Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps |
2018 (joint)[9] |
Erica Armstrong Dunbar |
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge |
Tiya Miles |
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits |
2017 |
Manisha Sinha |
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition |
2016 |
Jeff Forret |
Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South |
2015 |
Ada Ferrer |
Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution |
2014 |
Christopher Hager |
Word By Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing |
2013 |
Sydney Nathans |
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker |
2012 |
James H. Sweet |
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World |
2011 |
Stephanie McCurry |
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South |
2010 |
Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff |
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World |
2010 Second Prize |
Siddharth Kara |
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery |
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[10] |
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 W. 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[11] |
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 |