Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announced that the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize will be shared between AHA member Marjoleine Kars (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County) for her book Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (New Press) and fellow historian Vincent Brown (Harvard Univ.) for his book Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually to “the best book written in English on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition published in the preceding year.”