Finalist - Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner - Tom Watson Brown Book AwardWinner - Shapiro Book Prize |
Happy Dreams of Liberty
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About the Author
R. Isabela Morales is an award-winning author and public historian. Her first book, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom, is the winner of the 2023 Tom Watson Brown Book Award from the Society of Civil War Historians and the 2023 Shapiro Book Prize from the Huntington Library, and is a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Center's prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Dr. Morales is the Education and Exhibit Manager at the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, Central New Jersey's first dedicated Black history museum, as well as the Editor of Princeton University's expansive public history initiative, The Princeton & Slavery Project. She is committed to sharing historical research with a broad audience and has been a featured speaker at conferences and public events, on numerous podcasts, and in the NY Emmy-nominated PBS documentary The Price of Silence.
Dr. Morales received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2019. She completed an M.A. in history from Princeton in 2014 and a B.A. in history and American Studies from The University of Alabama in 2012, where she first began the research that would become Happy Dreams of Liberty. |
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