Lapidus Center Announces 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists
Professors Tiya Miles, Olivette Otele, and Joshua D. Rothman are finalists for the 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize.
Tiya Miles, Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University, Olivette Otele, professor of History of Slavery and Memory of Enslavement at the University of Bristol, and Joshua D. Rothman, professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama, are finalists for the 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize.
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center honors the best nonfiction book on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World published in the U.S. during the previous year.
The award will go to one of the following books: Miles’s All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, Otele’s African Europeans: An Untold History, or Rothman’s The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.
The winner will be announced in December.
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles
The story of how three generations of Black women have passed down a family treasure—a sack filled with a few precious items given from an enslaved woman to her daughter in 1850s South Carolina.
African Europeans: An Untold History
by Olivette Otele
A history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans."
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
by Joshua D. Rothman
This shocking story of the America’s internal slave trade examines how over half a million enslaved people were trafficked by rich and respected businessmen using a combination of entrepreneurial ambition and brutal violence.
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