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Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, will be awarded the $20,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation (Oxford Univ. Press).(Awards)(Brief Article)

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From: Civil War History
Date: 20040901
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Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, will be awarded the $20,000 Frederick Douglass Prize for The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation (Oxford Univ. Press). The Frederick Douglass Prize, endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman and administered by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery at Yale University, is awarded to the year's best nonfiction book on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition.

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