David W. Blight

Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight is a monumental biography of the esteemed former slave who became a leading voice for abolition and civil rights in America. This richly detailed and immersive work takes readers from Douglass's harrowing escape from slavery in Baltimore in 1838 to his rise as one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. The book...

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University "The most mature examination ever made of the role of slavery in a university's past." — John Samuel Harpham, Times Literary Supplement Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University's historical involvement with slavery, the...

Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous...

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University. "The most mature examination ever made of the role of slavery in a university's past."—John Samuel Harpham, Times Literary Supplement Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University's historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade,...