Continuing our recap of the awards from this year's meeting of the ASLH, we turn to the Jane Burbank Global Legal History Article Prize, awarded annually "to the best article in regional, global, imperial, comparative, or transnational legal history published in the previous calendar year." This year's award went to Nathaniel Millett (Saint Louis University), for “Law, Lineage, Gender and the Lives of Enslaved Indigenous People on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean,” William & Mary Quarterly 78:4 (October) 2021, pp.687-720. The citation:
Millett uses a remarkable documentary record to examine the unraveling of slavery in nineteenth century Belize. Plaintiffs who were generations removed from the initial place of enslavement used prohibitions against indigenous slavery by incorporating genealogical memories, racial ambiguity, geographical mobility, and legal loopholes to argue for their freedom.
Congratulations to Professor Millett, and thank you to the members of the prize committee, chaired by Michelle McKinley, for their service!
-- Karen Tani
