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Jan 7, 2020 · Blight captures an icon in full humanity. From riveting drama in slavery and Civil War, his Douglass rises into clairvoyant genius on the blinkered centrality of race in our struggle for freedom.”. -- Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of America in the King Years. “Extraordinary. . . .
Nov 13, 2023 · David W. Blight is the Sterling Professor of American History at Yale and the director of the university’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the author, most recently, of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Frederick Douglass was an orator, a writer, and a statesman.
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland.
Oct 16, 2018 · -- David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 “ Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom is a triumph—elegantly written, with much new material about one of the most famous and important men in modern history. David Blight has created a vibrant and convincing portrait of a ...
Aug 15, 2019 · Birth and Early Life. Acclaimed abolitionist and women’s rights supporter Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay. His birth name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. As with many slaves, Douglass did not know the exact date of his birth, but he celebrated it on February 14.
“David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass. With extraordinary detail he illuminates the complexities of Douglass’s life and career and paints a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the 19th century. . . . Magisterial.”
Frederick Douglass, nascido como Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey ( Condado de Talbot, c. fevereiro de 1818 [ 1][ nota 1] – Washington, D.C., 20 de fevereiro de 1895) foi um abolicionista, estadista e escritor estadunidense. Chamado " O Sábio de Anacostia " ou " O Leão de Anacostia ", ele foi dos mais eminentes afro-americanos do seu ...
