David W. Blight

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About The Author

David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies. He has worked on Douglass much of his professional life, and been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others.

Books by David W. Blight

Frederick Douglass

Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History

Winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher Awards

Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Bos...
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