David W. Blight

Author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. He is the author of annotated editions of two of Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom. He is also the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation and the prize-winning Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, among other works. Visit David W. Blight at www.davidwblight.com. — biography from Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom … (more)

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Works by David W. Blight

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Author) 802 copies, 19 reviews

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave (Bedford… (Editor) 579 copies, 5 reviews

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory 550 copies, 13 reviews

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their own… 305 copies, 7 reviews

A People and a Nation: A History of the United States (Author) 198 copies

American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era 68 copies, 1 review

Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory 67 copies, 1 review

Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee 53 copies

Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War 36 copies

Beyond freedom : disrupting the history of emancipation 10 copies

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln : a relationship in language,… 10 copies

When This Cruel War Is over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey… 6 copies, 1 review

Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era 6 copies

"Hope is the First Great Blessing": Leaves from the African Free School… 3 copies

The Massachusetts Historical Review (Volume 11, 2009) 1 copy

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 [Podcast] 1 copy

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by… 1 copy

Young Frederick Douglass 1 copy

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Editor, some editions) 7,909 copies, 109 reviews

The Souls of Black Folk [Bedford Cultural Editions] (Editor) 119 copies

Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World (Contributor) 98 copies, 3 reviews

The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents (Foreword) 87 copies, 2 reviews

Who Speaks for the Negro? (Introduction, some editions) 56 copies, 1 review

Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Foreword) 54 copies

The Columbian Orator (Introduction, some editions) 44 copies

William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : history, legacy, and memory (Contributor) 5 copies

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Rare Slave Manuscripts Tell Stories of Escape - December 4, 2007

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In A Slave No More, historian David W. Blight showcases the emancipation narratives of two men, one from Alabama and one from Virginia. Manuscripts written by Wallace Turnage and John Washington, and genealogical information compiled by Blight, combine to tell the stories of their lives as slaves and their harrowing flights to freedom. (Shortride)

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