Professor Justene Hill Edwards has been awarded the twenty-seventh Annual Frederick Douglas Book Prize

Justen Hill Edwards has been awarded the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for “Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank” (W. W. Norton and Company, 2024) at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. This is one of the most acclaimed awards for global studies of slavery, opposition to it, and the experiences and resistance of enslaved people.