Justene Hill Edwards Wins 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Congratulations to Professor Justene Hill Edwards, whose book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank (W. W. Norton and Company, 2024), won the 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize! The $25,000 prize, awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, recognizes "an outstanding non-fiction book in English published on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition." To learn more, visit the Gilder Lehrman Institute's website.

Congratulations, Professor Hill Edwards!