We speak with author David Blight, whose award-winning biography "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" explores the life of one of the most consequential leaders of the 19th century.
Guest
David Blight, professor of American history, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University. Author or editor of a dozen books, including "American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era," "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory" and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies. Blight has focused on Douglass for much of his professional life, and has been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others.
Resources
- From Slavery To 'American Wonder': Revisiting Frederick Douglass' Remarkable Life
- A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth
- David Blight on Frederick Douglass: 'I call him beautifully human'
- An abolitionist’s papers attract worldwide attention for Savannah
- Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- What Frederick Douglass Revealed—and Omitted—in His Famous Autobiographies