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09 August 2012: Professor Blackburn announced as finalist for coveted prize

Professor Robin Blackburn's book titled The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights has been selected as one of four finalists for the coveted Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the study of the African-American experience.

The prize is awarded by Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Professor Blackburn's book is being recognised for the most outstanding non-fiction book published in English on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements.

You can read Yale University's press release for more information.

Greg Grandin from The Guardian reviewed the book last year. You can read this on the Guardian website.