Slavery & Abolition
Individual topics classified under "Slavery & Abolition", ranked by how many awards the books carrying each one have won combined. Open a topic to see its most-awarded books.
- 1
Slavery
27 books
24
wins
277
score
- The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White · Henry Wiencek2 wins · 24 score
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture · David Brion Davis2 wins · 21 score
- The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 · David Brion Davis2 wins · 20 score
- White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812 · Winthrop D. Jordan2 wins · 20 score
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 · Alan Taylor1 win · 19 score
- 2
Slavery in America
7 books
11
wins
115
score
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake · Tiya Miles4 wins · 38 score
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family · Annette Gordon-Reed3 wins · 33 score
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America · Clint Smith1 win · 15 score
- The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative · Gregg Hecimovich1 win · 12 score
- Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom · Peter Kolchin1 win · 8 score
- 3
Abolitionism
10 books
11
wins
108
score
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture · David Brion Davis2 wins · 21 score
- The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 · David Brion Davis2 wins · 20 score
- The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation · David Brion Davis1 win · 15 score
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves · Adam Hochschild1 win · 12 score
- Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe · Forrest Wilson1 win · 12 score
- 4
Slavery and emancipation
5 books
5
wins
63
score
- Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery · Leon F. Litwack2 wins · 24 score
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era · James M. McPherson1 win · 16 score
- The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe · Marlene L. Daut1 win · 11 score
- Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War · Melvin Patrick Ely1 win · 8 score
- Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment · Willie Lee Nichols Rose0 wins · 4 score
- 5
Slavery and abolition
12 books
4
wins
64
score
- A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 · James Ford Rhodes1 win · 12 score
- Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture · Sudhir Hazareesingh1 win · 12 score
- Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People · Tiya Miles0 wins · 5 score
- The Haitian People · James G. Leyburn1 win · 5 score
- The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery · Jonathan D. S. Schroeder1 win · 5 score
- 6
American slavery
4 books
4
wins
43
score
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery · Eric Foner2 wins · 20 score
- Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic · Erskine Clarke1 win · 8 score
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery · Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman1 win · 8 score
- Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery · Seth Rockman0 wins · 7 score
- 7
Antebellum America
4 books
3
wins
40
score
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 · Daniel Walker Howe1 win · 16 score
- The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 · David M. Potter† (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)1 win · 12 score
- The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison · John L. Thomas1 win · 8 score
- America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink · Kenneth M. Stampp0 wins · 4 score
- 8
Haitian Revolution
4 books
3
wins
29
score
- Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture · Sudhir Hazareesingh1 win · 12 score
- The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe · Marlene L. Daut1 win · 11 score
- The Haitian People · James G. Leyburn1 win · 5 score
- You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery · Jeremy D. Popkin0 wins · 1 score
- 9
Emancipation
3 books
3
wins
28
score
- 10
Slavery and its aftermath
4 books
3
wins
26
score
- Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present · Jacqueline Jones1 win · 12 score
- The Image of the Black in Western Art: Part 1 · Hugh Honour1 win · 5 score
- The Negro Family in the United States · Edward Franklin Frazier1 win · 5 score
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I · Hugh Honour0 wins · 4 score
- 11
Atlantic slave trade
5 books
2
wins
29
score
- Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade · Hannah Durkin1 win · 8 score
- The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of Slave Trade · Robert W. Harms1 win · 8 score
- A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution · Toby Green0 wins · 6 score
- New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America · Wendy Warren0 wins · 4 score
- Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope · Jonathan M. Bryant0 wins · 3 score
- 12
Antebellum South
3 books
2
wins
24
score
- Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War · Melvin Patrick Ely1 win · 8 score
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery · Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman1 win · 8 score
- Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter · Theodore Rosengarten0 wins · 8 score
- 13
Slavery and its legacy
4 books
1
win
22
score
- The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family · Kerri K. Greenidge0 wins · 10 score
- The Negro in Brazilian Society · Florestan Fernandes1 win · 5 score
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 · Keisha N. BlainIbram X. Kendi0 wins · 4 score
- The 1619 Project · Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper (ed.), Ilena Silverman (ed.), Jake Silverstein (ed.)0 wins · 3 score
- 14
Slavery in colonial America
3 books
1
win
19
score
- Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry · Philip D. Morgan1 win · 11 score
- American Slavery, American Freedom · Edmund S. Morgan0 wins · 4 score
- Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion · Peter H. Wood0 wins · 4 score
- 15
Transatlantic slave trade
3 books
1
win
13
score
- Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade · David Eltis and David Richardson1 win · 5 score
- The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery · Siddharth Kara0 wins · 5 score
- Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade · Nicholas Radburn0 wins · 3 score
Recent Standout Topics (2020+)
- 1Slavery in America6 wins
- 2Slavery and abolition2 wins
- 3Slavery and its legacy0 wins
Where This Data Comes From
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction2012–2026
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award1936–2026
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction1999–2026
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award2005–2026
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize1999–2026
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography1919–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2025