Lapidus Center at the Schomburg Center Announces 2023 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists
Congratulations to Professors Kerri K. Greenidge (Tufts University) and Jesse Olsavsky (Duke Kunshan University), award-winning author and historian R. Isabela Morales, and writer Jori Lewis. The four are finalists for the 2023 Harriet Tubman Prize.
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of 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.
Nominated titles are The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family, The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1861, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History, respectively.
Finalists were selected by a jury of librarians and scholars. The winner will be announced in December and receive $7,500.
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
by Kerri K. Greenidge
The book presents a counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family.
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
by Jori Lewis
The text reveals a lyrical and powerful story that weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions.
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom
by R. Isabela Morales
The book tells the story of a poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the U.S. West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow.
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
by Jesse Olsavsky
The text tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement.
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