Blight captures an icon in full humanity. "A consistently engrossing book that is likely to remain the definitive account of Douglass's life for many years to come."-Eric Foner "The Nation" Blight has certainly written, in the book's texture and density and narrative flow-one violent and provocative incident arriving right after another-a great American biography."-Adam Gopnik "The New Yorker" Blight isn't looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate it - a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds."-Jennifer Szalai "The New York Times" "The first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades. A brilliant book."-John Stauffer "The Wall Street Journal" It is a book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass's. Blight displays his lifelong interest in Douglass on almost every page, and his own voice is active and eloquent throughout the narrative.
a tour de force of storytelling."-Brent Staples "The New York Times Book Review" In 2023 he will serve as president of the Organization of American Historians. Blight appeared in the 1998 PBS series, Africans in America, and has served on the Council of the American Historical Association. A consultant to several documentary films, Dr. In 2013-2014 he was the Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge.
Blight has edited or co-edited six other books, and his essays have appeared in numerous journals. His book, A SLAVE NO MORE: THE EMANCIPATION OF JOHN WASHINGTON AND WALLACE TURNAGE earned three awards. He has also written FREDERICK DOUGLASS�S CIVIL WAR and RACE AND REUNION: THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICAN MEMORY, 1863-1915, which received eight awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize and four prizes awarded by the Organization of American Historians. In 2019 he won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his work, FREDERICK DOUGLASS: PROPHET OF FREEDOM. He is the Sterling Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University.
from Michigan State University and his Ph.D.
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