Ana Lucia Araujo’s Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery won one of our two $10,000 finalists prizes of the Museum of American History Stone Book Award. An Atlantic history of slavery the book traces the history of slavery not just in the United States of America, but in the Americas and Brazil in particular. It foregrounds the lived experience of enslaved people and and in doing so illuminates how the African practices and traditions survived and persisted in the Americas among communities of enslaved people.
