Evans of Savannah, Georgia, “Makes possible many new insights into the final third of Douglass’s life. Blight writes that the collection, owned by Walter O. “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” sheds new light on Douglass thanks, in part, to a trove of papers and letters found in a private collection. David Blight’s-and Frederick Douglass’s-achievements have immeasurably enriched our understanding of slavery, abolitionism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.” A brilliant book.” Drew Gilpin Faust, former president of Harvard and author of “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” has described Blight’s book as “a work not only of stunning scholarship but also of literary artistry. Blight, Professor of History at Yale, will discuss his much-anticipated new book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” Adam Gopnik, in The New Yorker, called Blight’s book “Extraordinary … a great American biography.” The Wall Street Journal, called it “a book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass’s …. On Saturday, November 10, at 1:30 p.m., in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Van Lennep Auditorium, David W.
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