David W. Blight
Forfatter af Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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. vis mindre
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Værker af David W. Blight
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave (Bedford Books in American History) (1993) — Redaktør — 1,015 eksemplarer
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their own Narratives of Emancipation (2007) 337 eksemplarer
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln : a relationship in language, politics, and memory (2001) 12 eksemplarer
"Hope is the First Great Blessing": Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book, 1812-1826 (2008) 5 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 9,316 eksemplarer
William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : history, legacy, and memory (2008) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
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- Blight, David W.
- Juridisk navn
- Blight, David William
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- Blight, David
- Fødselsdato
- 1949-03-21
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- USA
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- Flint, Michigan, USA
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- Flint, Michigan, USA
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. | 1985)
Michigan State University (BA | 1971 | MA | 1976) - Erhverv
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- Society of American Historians
New York Historical Society (Board of Trustees)
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition (Director)
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians (vis alle 9)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Yale University
Amherst College - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Bancroft Prize (2002)
Frederick Douglass Prize (2001)
Anisfield-Wolf Prize (2012)
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And so began the inspiration for Douglass to reach others who could join him in an endeavor for freedom, not just for himself, but all those in bondage.
This is a very dense book- full of facts, quotes, excerpts of speeches, newspaper editorials, letters, and photographs.
The book chronicles the rich life and influences of Frederick Douglass- not just his professional life as an abolitionist, journalist, orator, and writer, but his personal life. This makes the "prophet" more human. He was beset with family problems, money woes, and scandals. He certainly was not perfect. He was anti-Catholic, dismissive of cultural plurality, and not completely supportive of women's rights. Still, he was a man to be admired.
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