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David W. Blight

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. A leading historian of the Civil War era, slavery, and American historical memory, he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his biography of Frederick Douglass.

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7 books
Cover of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

2018

Blight follows Frederick Douglass from enslavement in Maryland through escape, fame as the era's greatest orator, and his complex later decades, drawing on a private collection few historians have seen and newly discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers.

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Cover of Yale and Slavery: A History

Yale and Slavery: A History

2024

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Cover of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

2011

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Cover of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom

2007

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Cover of Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War

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

2002

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Cover of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

2001

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Cover of Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

1989

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