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Премия Фредерика Дугласа - американская литературная премия за самую выдающуюся нехудожественную книгу на английском языке, посвященную теме рабства, отмены или движения против рабства. Одна из самых желанных наград за исследование глобального рабства.

Была учреждена в 1999 году. Присуждается ежегодно Институтом американской истории им. Гилдера Лермана (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) и Центром изучения рабства, сопротивления и отмены Гилдера Лермана при Йельском университете.

Награда названа в честь одного из известнейших борцов за права чернокожего населения Америки, руководителя негритянского освободительного движения, писателя Фредерика Дугласа (1818-1895).

В отдельные годы премией награждались сразу два лауреата.

Лауреат получает 25 000 долларов США.

Жанры: Документальная литература, Зарубежная литература, Современная зарубежная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1999 г. Последнее вручение: 2024 г. Официальный сайт: https://glc.yale.edu/DouglassBookPrize

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Премия Фредерика Дугласа
Frederick Douglass Book Prize
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Премия Фредерика Дугласа
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom
R. Isabela Morales 0.0
A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow.

When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters, and two all of them his slaves.

In this deeply researched, movingly narrated portrait of the extended Townsend family, R. Isabela Morales reconstructs the migration of this mixed-race family across the American West and South over the second half of the nineteenth century. Searching for communities where they could exercise their newfound freedom and wealth to the fullest, members of the family homesteaded and attended college in Ohio and Kansas; fought for the Union Army in Mississippi; mined for silver in the Colorado Rockies; and, in the case of one son, returned to Alabama to purchase part of the old plantation where he had once been held as a slave. In Morales's telling, the Townsends' story maps a new landscape of opportunity and oppression, where the meanings of race and freedom--as well as opportunities for social and economic mobility--were dictated by highly local circumstances.

During the turbulent period between the Civil War and the rise of Jim Crow at the turn of the twentieth century, the Townsends carved out spaces where they were able to benefit from their money and mixed-race ancestry, pass down generational wealth, and realize some of their happy dreams of liberty.
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Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
Simon P. Newman 0.0
Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of Britain’s enslaved people and their liberation.

This book brings the history of slavery in England to light, revealing the powerful untold stories of resistance by enslaved workers from Africa, South Asia, and First-Nations America forced to work in London as sailors and dockworkers, wet-nurses and washerwomen. Featuring a series of original case studies on those enslaved people who escaped captivity, this volume provides a rich source of information about slavery in eighteenth-century mainland Britain and the “freedom seekers” therein. Using maps, photographs, newspaper advertisements, and more, the book details escape routes, the networks of slaveholders, and the community of people of color across the London region.

Freedom Seekers demonstrates that not only were enslaved people present in Restoration London but that white Londoners were intimately involved in the construction of the system of racial slavery, a process traditionally regarded as happening in the colonies rather than the British Isles. Freedom Seekers is an utterly unmissable and important book that seeks to delve into Britain’s colonial past.
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