This free event is part of Douglass 200, a year-long initiative by the University of Maryland to commemorate the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings The largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism Includes the novella The Heroic Slave More Edited by David W. 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. American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, 2011, etc. 1818-1895) scholar Blight (American History/Yale Univ. In this superbly written book, Civil War and Frederick Douglass (c. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, distinghished profesor of American history, David W. A lengthy but easily digestible biography of the famed ex-slave, abolitionist, and autobiographer.
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