![]() ![]() This free event is part of Douglass 200, a year-long initiative by the University of Maryland to commemorate the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass. The origins of the book lie in the doctoral thesis Blight wrote at the UW 40 years ago and reflect a fascination with the Civil War that dates back to his high. He is the author of numerous award-winning books include Race and Reunion: The Civil Ware in American Memory (2001) and a new biography of Frederick Douglass to be published later this year. Blight will deliver a public talk entitled, "My Voice, My Pen, My Vote: Frederick Douglass's Legacies in Our Own Time."īorn into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Douglass became a leading crusader to abolish slavery and a tireless advocate for human rights and equality.ĭavid Blight is a Distinguished Professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Historian David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traced Frederick Douglass' path from slavery to abolitionist and inspired HBO's documentary, Frederick Douglass: In Five. ![]() In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, distinghished profesor of American history, David W. ![]()
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