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Michigan State professor wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.(Dr. Laurent Dubois for its book 'A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804' )

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Date: 20051117
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NEW HAVEN, CONN.

Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition recently awarded the Seventh Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize to Dr. Laurent Dubois for his study of the trans-cultural struggle over slavery and citizenship in the revolutionary French Caribbean.

Dubois, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, will be awarded the prize for his book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (University of North Carolina Press). Focusing on the C island of ...

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