Wesley Logan Prize

The Wesley Logan Prize is an annual prize given to a historian by the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life & History

Background

The Wesley-Logan Prize is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book in African diaspora history. The prize was established in 1992 in memory of two early pioneers in history, Charles H. Wesley and Rayford W. Logan.^[1]

Eligibility

The nominated books must have been published between May 1 of the previous year and April 30 of the entry year.^[2]

Notable winners

Past winners of the prize include:^[3]

2023 - Shannen Dee Williams, Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
2022 - Yesenia Barragan, Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific
2021 - Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
2020 - Benjamin Talton, In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics
2019 - Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil
2018 - Monique Bedasse, Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization
2017 - Sowande' Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
2016 - Carina Ray, 'Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana
2015 - Ada Ferrer, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
2014 - Jacob S. Dorman, Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions
2013 - Martha Biondi, Black Revolution on Campus
2012 - Erik McDuffie, Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism and the Making of Black Left Feminism
2011 - Frank Guridy, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cuban and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow
2010 - Pier Larson, Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
2009 - Alexander Byrd, Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
2008 - Paul Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa
2007 - Laura Adderley, New Negroes from Africa': Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
2007 - Sylviane Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
2006 - Kenneth M. Bilby, True-Born Maroons
2005 - Melvin Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
2004 - James Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World
2003 - Leslie M. Harris, In the Shadows of Slavery: African Americans in New York City
2002 - Julie Winch, A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten
2001 - Eric Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality
2000 - David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
1999 - Kim Butler, Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition San Paulo and Salvador
1998 - Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
1997 - W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
1997 - Brenda Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Aid
1996 - Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
1995 - Aline Helg, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality
1994 - Richard Thomas, Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit

References

External links

Official website

[1] "Wesley-Logan Prize | AHA".

[2] "Wesley Logan Prize".

[3] "Wesley-Logan Prize Recipients | AHA".

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