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- ↑ "Yale Announces 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners". The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. 2023-11-14. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ↑ "Announcing the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners". gilderlehrman.org. November 16, 2022. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
- ↑ "Announcing the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winners, Vincent Brown and Marjoleine Kars". gilderlehrman.org. November 23, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Yale announces 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner". glc.yale.edu. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ↑ "Yale announces 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner". glc.yale.edu. November 12, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
- ↑ "Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". YaleNews. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
- ↑ Nhu Vien Thi Nguyen (December 5, 2005). "Interview with Laurent Dubois, Winner of the $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize" . Retrieved September 18, 2010.
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