He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Constitution his eventual break with William Lloyd Garrison and many other abolitionists on the crucial issue of disunion the course of his complicated relationship with Abraham Lincoln and his deep engagement with the cause of women’s suffrage.ĭavid W. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling immediacy, these writings chart the evolution of Douglass’s thinking about slavery and the U.S. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published.Įdited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight will discuss his new book, Frederick Douglass: Library of America, with historian Keidrick Roy.Ībout Frederick Douglass: Library of America:
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