Born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass didn’t have a single day of formal education in his life and yet became one of the greatest orators in history, explained historian David W. Blight ...
"The definitive, dramatic biography 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 ...
David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture ...
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts & Professor of History, Lecturer in Law, Emerita at the University of Iowa. David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History, Yale ...
Amherst College History and Black Studies Professor David W. Blight was recently awarded with the Frederick Douglass Book Prize of $25,000 for his latest book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in ...
No way was I going to read an 892-page book, even if it won the Pulitzer Prize and even if 121 of those pages are footnotes. But this biography of Douglass — who rose from enslavement in the South to ...
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