Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Frederick Douglass Book Prize
DescriptionOutstanding non-fiction on slavery, resistance, and abolition
CountryUnited States
Presented byGilder Lehrman Institute of American History & Yale University (GLC)
Reward$25,000
Websiteglc.yale.edu/frederick-douglass-book-prize

The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

It is a $25,000 award for the most outstanding non-fiction book (or pair of books) of the year in English on the subject of slavery, abolition, or antislavery movements. It was first awarded in 1999.