The Dawn of Detroit

Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize  Winner of the American Book Award  Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award  Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize  Winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)  Finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize  Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize  Finalist for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Editor’s Choice selection “If many Americans imagine slavery essentially as a system in