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2 Honored for Books on Slavery; Fresh Perspectives Win Area Historians $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990917
Author:Linda Wheeler

Two area authors have been awarded a new prize for outstanding books on slavery, beating out dozens of writers whose work ranged from slavery in Colonial South Carolina to child slavery in modern South Asia.

The first Frederick Douglass Book Prize of $25,000 will be divided between Ira Berlin, of the University of Maryland at College Park, for his book "Many Thousands Gone" and Philip D. Morgan, of the College of William and Mary, for his book "Slave Counterpoint." The awards were to be presented last night at a banquet in New York, but the event was canceled because of Hurricane Floyd.

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