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Yale’s Lehrman Center named Stauffer the second place recipient of its prestigious Frederick Douglass Prize, honoring the most notable nonfiction book on slavery, resistance and abolitionism published in the past year...
Robert Harms, a professor of African studies and history at Yale, won the first place Douglass Prize for his book about a French slaving voyage entitled The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Harms will receive a medallion and $15,000 while Stauffer will win a medallion...
Stauffer, who teaches classes on the Civil War and American protest literature, described his book as a “collective biography,” chronicling the lives of close friends Frederick Douglass, John Brown, James McCune Smith and Garret Smith and emphasizing their contributions to the radical abolitionist movement...
...words of Frederick Douglass, “if there is no struggle, there is no progress.” The recent litigation for black reparations is part of the larger movement to examine, reconcile and repair the past of America’s un-remedied injustices. This is not a black problem or a white problem, it is an American problem, and it demands an American solution. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “we seek not just equality as a right and theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result...
Unlike the celebrated autobiography of Frederick Douglass, The Bondwoman’s Narrative is embellished and dramatized. It’s a work of what Gates calls “autobiographical fiction”—one of just a few such fictional accounts by American slaves, he said...