# Premio Frederick Douglass

Il premio Frederick Douglass (detto anche Frederick Douglass Prize) è un premio letterario statunitense istituito nel 1999, assegnato ogni anno per i libri pubblicati in lingua inglese di saggistica sul tema della schiavitù e/o l'abolizione e movimenti antischiavisti. Il premio viene assegnato dalla Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, alla Università di Yale ed è dedicato allo scrittore e politico abolizionista Frederick Douglass (1818–1895).
I destinatari nonché vincitori del premio riceveranno 25000 $.

## Albo d'oro

| Anno | Autore | Titolo |
| 2024 | Marlene L. Daut | Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution |
| ex aequo | Sara E. Johnson | Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World |
| 2023 | R. Isabela Morales | Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom |
| ex aequo | Simon P. Newman | Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London |
| 2022 | Tiya Miles | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake |
| ex aequo | Jennifer L. Morgan | Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic |
| 2021 | Vincent Brown | Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of An Atlantic Slave War |
| ex aequo | Marjoleine Kars | Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast |
| 2020 | Sophie White | Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana |
| 2019 | Amy Murrell Taylor | Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps |
| 2018 | Erica Armstrong Dunbar | Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge |
| ex aequo | 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 | Domingos Álvares | African Healing and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World |
| 2011 | Stephanie McCurry | Confederate Reckoning |
| 2010 | Judith Carney | In the shadow of 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 |
| 2004 | Jean Fagan Yellin | Harriet Jacobs: A Life |
| 2003 | Seymour Drescher | The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation |
| | 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 |
| | John Stauffer | The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race |
| 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 |
| | Philip D. Morgan | Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry |