Congratulations to Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (Univ. of California, Berkeley), whose book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South was recently awarded the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize from the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The award is given to the best nonfiction book published in the United States on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic world.
