Wesley Logan Prize

Background

Eligibility

Notable winners

• 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 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