Website : David W. Blight at Yale University
Sterling Professor of History, Yale University, and director of the Gilder Lehramn Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistence, and Abolition. Author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won a Pulitzer Prize; American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; and many others.
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner...
“The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows perhaps better than anyone, and in this superb book he masterfully unites two distant but inextricably bound events.”―Ken Burns
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, “One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.” He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil...
