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New view on slavery wins coveted Frederick Douglass Award

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From: New York Amsterdam News
Date: 20000927
Author:Booker, Jeanne

Booker, Jeanne
New York Amsterdam News
09-27-2000
New view on slavery wins coveted Frederick Douglass Award

David Eltis, an associate of the W.E.D. DuBois Institute at Harvard
University and profesor of history at Queens University in Canada, has won
this year's $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for his book, "The Rise of
African Slavery in the Americas," deemed the most outstanding book in 2000
on slavery. The coveted award -- the most generous in this field of study
-- will be presented at a banquet at the Yale Club in New York City on
Tuesday, Sept. 26.

This winning book by Eltis, who is widely ...

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