YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center to aw award first annual Frederick Douglass Prize.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 September 1999-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center to award first annual Frederick Douglass Prize for best book on slavery on Sept. 16 (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:090999 New Haven, CT -- Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition will announce the winner of its first annual $25,000 prize for the most outstanding book published on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition on September 16 in New York.

The announcement of the first Frederick Douglass Book Prize will come at a 3:30 p.m. press conference in the Trumbull Room of the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, NY, 10017. The awarding of the prize, which will become the most generous prize in...