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  • Hubbell Prize Awarded

David Eltis has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2008. His study on "The U.S. Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644–1867" was selected by a committee at the Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award.

Eltis's article earned distinction for publishing the first results from his completed database, which has amassed more than 35,000 voyages of the slave trade over a 300-year period and has the most complete compendium on U.S. slave trade to date. The numbers verify that the United States was a relatively minor player in the trade compared to the British and that smuggling of slaves into the United States after the end of the legal slave trade in 1808 was not as high as scholars had estimated.1

Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000), which was awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize, the John Ben Snow Prize, and the Wesley-Logan Prize, and Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1987), which won the British Trevor Reese Memorial Prize. He is editor of and contributor to Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives (Stanford University Press, 2002) and coeditor of and contributor to a special issue of William and Mary Quarterly (2001), Routes to Slavery: Direction, Mortality and Ethnicity in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1595–1867 (London, Frank Cass, 1997). He is also cocreator of The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is currently at work on a book on slave ship revolts, an analysis of the identity of captive Africans put on board slave ships, and is coediting the Cambridge World History of Slavery.

Awarded annually and funded by a donor through the Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University, the John T. Hubbell Prize recognizes the extraordinary contribution to the field of its namesake, who served as editor of Civil War History for thirty-five years. [End Page 441]

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1. The searchable database is available online at www.slavevoyages.org.

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