No surprise given that Annette Gordon-Reed seems to be rounding up all of the major history book awards for her recent study, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Although I read this book I thought that Thavolia Glymph should have won for Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which focuses on the relations of southern black and white women. The most interesting aspect of the study is her analysis of the use of violence by women of the planter elite against enslaved women. Both books are well worth your time. Congratulations once again to Professor Gordon-Reed.
Gordon-Reed Wins 2009 Frederick Douglass Prize
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