2023 Kelly Prize
<p><img alt="Kerri K. Greenidge" height="100" src="Images/Awards/2023 Winners/Kelly-Greenidge-HEADSHOT_web.png" title="Kerri K. Greenidge" width="100" /><img alt="The Grimkes" height="100" src="Images/Awards/2023 Winners/Kelly-Greenidge-COVER_web.png" title="The Grimkes" width="67" /></p>
<p><strong>Kerri K. Greenidge</strong>, Tufts University<br /><em><a class="extLink" href="https://bookshop.org/a/11112/9781324090847" title="The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family " target="_blank">The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family </a></em> (W.W. Norton)</p>
<p>In this sweeping, innovative, and highly original book, Kerri K. Greenidge reintroduces us to the Grimkes. Her impressive research draws attention to white and Black members of the family from the 18th to the 20th century. The family’s history illuminates the Black and white experience of both the abolition movement and Reconstruction. Her engaging and compelling account of the Grimkes shows how Black struggles for freedom and human dignity shaped a family and a nation.</p>