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David W. Blight

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David W. Blight

Born August 15, 2026

David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

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Souls of Black Folk Southern Horrors and Other Writings Up from Slavery

Souls of Black Folk Southern Horrors and Other Writings Up from Slavery

with W.E.B. Du Bois

Yale and Slavery

Yale and Slavery

2024
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

2018
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
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Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom

2018·1 grade
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself

2016

with Frederick Douglass

The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

2016
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

2010
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

2007
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

2002
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War

Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War

2002
Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory

Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory

2001
When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters

When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters

1992
Who Speaks for the Negro?

Who Speaks for the Negro?

1965