David W. Blight
Auteur van Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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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 at Yale. He is the author of annotated editions of two of Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick toon meer Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom. He is also the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation and the prize-winning Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, among other works. Visit David W. Blight at www.davidwblight.com. toon minder
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Werken van David W. Blight
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave (Bedford Books in American History) (1993) — Redacteur — 986 exemplaren
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their own Narratives of Emancipation (2007) 338 exemplaren
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln : a relationship in language, politics, and memory (2001) 12 exemplaren
"Hope is the First Great Blessing": Leaves from the African Free School Presentation Book, 1812-1826 (2008) 5 exemplaren
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 9,253 exemplaren
William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : history, legacy, and memory (2008) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
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- Bancroft Prize (2002)
Frederick Douglass Prize (2001)
Anisfield-Wolf Prize (2012)
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And so began the inspiration for Douglass to reach others who could join him in an endeavor for freedom, not just for himself, but all those in bondage.
This is a very dense book- full of facts, quotes, excerpts of speeches, newspaper editorials, letters, and photographs.
The book chronicles the rich life and influences of Frederick Douglass- not just his professional life as an abolitionist, journalist, orator, and writer, but his personal life. This makes the "prophet" more human. He was beset with family problems, money woes, and scandals. He certainly was not perfect. He was anti-Catholic, dismissive of cultural plurality, and not completely supportive of women's rights. Still, he was a man to be admired.
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