Blight 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 Frederick Douglass’s first two autobiographies. Books are available for sale and signing courtesy of Smithsonian Enterprises.

Robinson Professor of History, George Mason University and curator of the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s inaugural exhibition entitled Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation 1876-1968. Blight discusses the enduring importance of Frederick Douglass, a man who escaped from slavery and became one of the great. Related Exhibition: Slavery and Freedom Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Jim Crow and the Era of Segregation 1876-1968.ĭavid Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, will talk about his new book, Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom in a discussion moderated by Spencer Crew, the Clarence J.

Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass life and thought, offering new. Venue: African American History and Culture MuseumĮvent Location: Concourse, Oprah Winfrey Theater In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. A history professor at Yale who has long been a major contributor to scholarship on Douglass, slavery, and the Civil War, Blight portrays Douglass unequivocally as a hero while also revealing.

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