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Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. She received the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.” Gordon-Reed is a member of the Lapidus Center’s Council of Advisors.ĭavid W. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, a Professor of History at Harvard University, and the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Queen's College, Oxford University.

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Gordon-Reed is working on a biography of Thomas Jefferson, and Blight is writing a full biography of Frederick Douglass.Īnnette Gordon-Reed is the Carol K.

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Blight is expecting this biography to be “the fullest account ever written of the last third of Douglass’s complex and epic life.”įor more info on the special event visit this illuminating conversation, Dr.

Blight’s extraordinary new book recants Douglass’s life uniquely as he was able to finish the story in a way no other author has thanks to a prestigious private collection. Douglass was the first African American to be invited to the White House where he met with the 16th President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln.ĭr.

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He was taught how to read by his slave owner’s mistress and with this knowledge he went on to write three versions of his autobiography and also publish his own newspaper. He escaped from slavery in 1838 and went on to live a very influential life. Blight also stated in an excerpt from the book that “The Evans collection, cited so many times in my notes, makes possible many new insights into the final third of Douglass’s life.”įrederick Douglass was born into slavery in February 1818, however he was not sure of the exact date. Blight stated that “It was my encounter with Walter’s private collection of Douglass documents some ten years ago that led me directly to writing the book.” Dr. In an interview with student intern, Quenton Blanding, Dr. Evans, a Savannah native, who owns one of the largest collections of Frederick Douglass memorabilia. He is currently the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Blight is a renowned historian of slavery and the Civil War era.

Blight’s induction as the first inaugural Vincent J. and a continuation of book signing from 8:00 pm to 8:30 p.m. Stan Deaton and David Blight about the book and Frederick Douglass’s role in American history from 7-8 p.m. The book signing will be followed by a discussion with Georgia Historical Society’s Dr. The special evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. Blight’s new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon and Schuster) on Thursday, Novemat the Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church in Savannah, Ga. The Georgia Historical Society (GHS) will be hosting a program to debut Dr.