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Jun 26, 2020 · At once timely and timeless, Douglass’s oration is “the masterpiece of oratory of his life and the rhetorical masterpiece of American abolitionism,” according to David Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and author of the prizewinning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of ...
May 29, 2024 · It happens to be the anniversary of my escape from bondage. Fifty-six years ago to-day, it was my good fortune to cease to be a slave, a chattel personal, and to become a man. It was upon the 3rd day of September, 1838, that I started upon my little life work in the world. It was a great day for me.
Nov 5, 2018 · FREDERICK DOUGLASS Prophet of Freedom By David W. Blight Illustrated. 888 pp. Simon & Schuster. $37.50. The alchemy that transformed an unknown fugitive slave named Frederick Douglass into one of ...
Now he is brought vividly and delightfully to life once more in the flesh and bones of this masterful biography by one of our greatest historians. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom is a monumental achievement, a must-read for anyone charting the history of a democracy when it is most severely under attack.”.
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Feb 23, 2022 · Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches: Directed by Julia Marchesi. With Nicole Beharie, David Blight, Colman Domingo, Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Frederick Douglass, delivered this speech, sometimes called, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” or the Fifth of July speech, on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. The speech, delivered to a local antislavery women’s group, began with a sympathetic account of the American Revolution and its great promise for freedom but then ...
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. . . .
