2008

Paul Christopher Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (Univ. of California Press, 2007)

2007

Rosanne Marion Adderley, "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean, Indiana Univ. Press, 2006

Sylviane A. Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006

Kenneth M. Bilby, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, True-Born Maroons (University Press of Florida, 2005)

2005

Melvin Patrick Ely, College of William and Mary, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War (Knopf, 2004).

2004

James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

2003

Leslie M. Harris, Emory University, In the Shadows of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

2002

Julie Winch, University of Massachusetts at Boston, A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten (Oxford University Press, 2002)

2001

Eric Arnesen, U. of Illinois at Chicago, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (Harvard U. Press, 2001)

2000

David Eltis, Queen's U., The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (Cambridge U. Press, 1999)

1999

Kim D. Butler, Rutgers U., Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition San Paulo and Salvador (Rutgers U. Press, 1998)

1998

Philip D. Morgan, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

1997

W. Jeffrey Bolster, U. of New Hampshire, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Harvard U. Press, 1997)

Brenda Gayle Plummer, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Aid (U. of North Carolina Press, 1996)

1996

Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Saint Mary’s College, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community (U. of North Carolina Press, 1996)

1995

Aline Helg, U. of Texas at Austin, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886–1912 (U. of North Carolina Press, 1995)

1994

Richard W. Thomas, Michigan State U., Life for Us Is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915–1945 (Indiana U. Press, 1992)