Book by Laurent Dubois wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 October 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Book by Laurent Dubois wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Prize(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26102005 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition recently announced that it has awarded the Seventh Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize to Laurent Dubois for his study of the trans-cultural struggle over slavery and citizenship in the revolutionary French Caribbean.

Dubois, associate professor at Michigan State University, will be awarded the prize for his book "A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804" (University of North Carolina Press). Focusing on the island of Guadeloupe, Dubois...