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Born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass didn’t have a single day of formal education in his life and yet became one of the greatest orators in history, explained historian David W. Blight ...

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David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture ...

Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts & Professor of History, Lecturer in Law, Emerita at the University of Iowa. David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History, Yale ...

insider.si.edu: Beyond freedom : disrupting the history of emancipation / edited by David W. Blight and Jim Downs

Prologue / Eric Foner -- Introduction / David W. Blight, Gregory P. Downs, and Jim Downs -- From slavery to freedom: the grammar of emancipation: putting final freedom in context / Richard Newman -- ...

Beyond freedom : disrupting the history of emancipation / edited by David W. Blight and Jim Downs

insider.si.edu: A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight

A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight

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insider.si.edu: Beyond the battlefield : race, memory & the American Civil War / David W. Blight

Beyond the battlefield : race, memory & the American Civil War / David W. Blight

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insider.si.edu: Great Lincoln documents : historians present treasures from the Gilder Lehrman Collection / with an introduction by Douglas L. Wilson and essays by David W. Blight ... [et al.]