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Originally published Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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UW professor wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize

University of Washington professor Stephanie E. Smallwood has won a prestigious prize for her groundbreaking history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Seattle Times book editor

A University of Washington history professor has won a prestigious history prize for her book on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Stephanie E. Smallwood, an associate history professor at the UW, has been awarded the $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for "Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage From Africa to American Diaspora" (Harvard University Press). The prize is awarded by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition for the best book written in English on slavery and abolition.

The finalists were selected from a field of 75 entries. Smallwood will pick up her award at a dinner in New York City in February.

The prize is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-95), the slave who escaped bondage to emerge as one of America's great abolitionists and reformers.

Mary Ann Gwinn: mgwinn@seattletimes.com

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